If you, as a person in a position of institutional power, can’t understand a marginalized person’s frustration with the systems that oppress them, you don’t really understand those systems at all.

This is disgusting. Also, it happens a lot more than it should in long term care. My wife worked with a woman who literally caught a man in the act of raping an 80 year old woman with dementia. She was almost fired after reporting as being complicit as the manager was close with the rapist and wanted to cover his own…

“...none of the staff at the Hacienda HealthCare facility knew the patient was pregnant until she went into labor and began moaning.”

Oh my god. This immediately brought to mind the scene in Kill Bill where the hospital attendant had been assaulting her while she was in her coma and just jesus fucking christ. This poor woman.