It’s been a pretty despairing week this week in terms of news.

I won’t link to the article that show’s queerphobic tweets in response to the Orlando shooting, but the news about the shooting in Xalapa, and the horrifying reporting by the Samoan Observer over fa’afafine woman Jeanine’s suicide is just gutting and awful on so many levels.

I thought this article on queer young people in New Zealand would be a nice little piece on people I know. But the comments, ohhhh the comments…