I wish I had something poignant to say, but the grief is too much. I wish I could be angry, to be spitting mad and moved to action, but it’s all just grief. With everything else going on in the world, with political madness and bigotry and systemic violence, I’m just going to go hug my cat and cry it out.

I have my masters in a STEM field (forensic biology) and worked in the industry for 7 years before quitting and shifting careers completely. The terrifying and extremely persistent offers on late-night scenes, comments in the lab, and straight-up harassment from police officers in the field meant that I had to be an…