My father's been in the Army since before my older sister was born, and he still is! Needless to say I'm used to moving around. Don't be surprised if you see me talking about moving again because my family is in constant motion.
I was diagnosed with social anxiety and general anxiety a few years back. I'm currently on medication for it, but haven't seen a psychologist in a long while. My anxiety does tend to get the better of me when it comes to online communication. I tend to overcompensate or hesitate to respond to things. I'm really sorry. Please don't pressure me, but feel free to give me a nudge if a week has gone by.
I recently moved up to Wisconsin to be closer to my sister and my niece. My mother will be living with me for a year while I get settled. I graduated college in May of 2015 but with a degree that I wasn't so stoked for after my anxiety diagnosis (print journalism). I took some community college classes to pad my graphic design minor so as to be a better hire prospect. I would love to be a desktop publisher (or graphic designer, if you so prefer).
Feel free to use whatever pronouns you want with me, but I tend to use she/her for myself. I'm bisexual and a budding Christian. I believe none of these contradict. (Please note that I accept everyone who chooses to be kind.)
I am unique, creative, funny, kind, bisexual and worthy of God's love.
STATUS: chilling with fam
WATCHING: Glee | Great British Bake-off | Friends
READING: Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by M. Ausiello | Scythe by Neal Shusterman | Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld | Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
PLAYING: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor | Pokemon Go | Darkest Dungeon | Stardew Valley
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When Sherry Johnson was eleven, she found one day that she’s gonna marry a 20-year-old member of her church who had raped her. She became pregnant and in order to avoid investigation and criminal case, her family and church officials decided to make the girl a legal wife of this monster.
“My mom asked me if I wanted to get married, and I said, ‘I don’t know, what is marriage, how do I act like a wife?’” Johnson remembers today, many years later. “She said, ‘Well, I guess you’re just going to get married.’”
However, her case is one of thousand cases of child marriage. According to statistics, children 16 and under are still being married in Florida at a rate of one every few days.
Johnson and her family also attended a conservative Pentecostal church and that other girls of a similar age periodically also married. One girl said when she was 10 she was raped by both a minister and a parishioner and later gave birth to a daughter. There were all documents confirming her and her child’s age, but still, the judge approved the marriage to end the rape investigation, telling her,
“What we want is for you to get married.”
And nevertheless, America prefers to interfere in other countries’ internal affairs, like in Syria, calling it “defending freedom” rather than to change states’ laws and to protect American children from rape, coercion and molestation.
Today, Johnson is campaigning for a state law to stop underage marriage that has already become a norm in some states.
Please, help me to raise awareness to this issue. No one can remain indifferent to the problem of child molestation.
#StopChildMarriage
#StopChildAbuse
Chris Christie refused to outlaw child marriage in New Jersey when he was governor. Until a few months ago 13 year olds could legally marry here. Fuck Republicans.
Just remember until women got the vote age of consent was like 8 years old. It was one of the first things women changed when they got the legal right to vote and represent themselves as human beings.
