Outsourced Issue 13: A Great Week For Queer Trauma
Coping when the world is attacking your identity takes carbs, therapy, and memes memes memes.
Sometimes working in media requires you to have a thick skin. To compartmentalize. To separate the job from the person. But when your job is monitoring LGBTQ news, that often means monitoring hate—hate that is, ultimately, directed towards you and those you love.
Last week was hard. I’m not even going to try to frame it in some kind of polite or abstrac…