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Kagan MacTane (he/him)

Day 7: MC POV: What are you angry about?

Angel Castillo says:

Hoo boy, you probably shouldn't have asked me that. Someone who used to go by the name "Aggro Duarte" in the slam poetry scene? I've been trying to ignore how angry I am, and about how many things, but you just touched a nerve... I'm angry that we're burning down the planet to prop up capitalism and big corporations' profits for just another few quarters. I'm angry that the government is trying to pretend Covid never happened and has magically disappeared, and so many people are going along with it. I'm angry that that means my best friend's parents, people who are practically like second parents to me, can't go out anymore without having to worry that they'll die, coughing their lungs out or intubated to their last breath. I'm angry that we finally got a woman of color mayor here, and yet she's just more of the same business as usual. I'm angry that right wingers with huge wallets and tiny hearts managed to kick out of office the first DA we've had who cared about people and didn't want to kowtow to the cops.
And I am _furious_ at the people in this country, including right here in San Francisco, who want to criminalize trans people, who want to criminalize queer people, who want to criminalize *me,* just for being who we are. And I'm angry at my own parents, because I know, without even talking to them, that they're some of those people. And I'm angry at myself, for not having the guts to tell Jake what it is I do. I'm not just angry, though. I'm also sad. And heartsick. And _tired,_ I am so, so tired of all the injustice. But I'm not about to stop. I'm not Aggro anymore — except, once in a while, when someone asks me a thing like that. Now I'm Angel. And I'm trying to make the world better.
Feb 07, 2025, 04:21 PM·Public
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