Diaper Change #10 - Death Penalty

Before:

The Dirty Diaper: VBO #10

After:

The Clean Diaper: WWFFS #10

Miriam's Commentary

Ok, this one hits really close to home. As insensitive as this is to the plight of women violently treated like I was, I can only say from my own experience that I wish I'd seen an image like this before I made my choice to abort. As traumatized as I was, maybe something would have snapped inside me and I'd have realized that it wasn't my child's fault that their father was the absolute worst sort of violent human possible.

I don't really believe in the death penalty, but if all death penalties were one day outlawed I'd vote for people who rape to be the exception. Anyone who rapes anyone, no matter the gender of those raped or the gender of the perpetrator, should be sent into the afterlife to deal with God as quickly as due process allows. It is perhaps the most grievous evil on earth in my mind and I am NOT alone in that sentiment.

A Note from Buzz on Trauma Dumping

In the first meme above (we refer to these as 'Vulgar Buzz Originals' or VBO's) you get the full force of trauma that I was working through at age eighteen when I discovered I was one of the rare abortion survivors. My therapist recommended that I use my graphic design skills to work through my rage, grief and pain... a closely supervised 'trauma dump' if you will. It definitely helped and I am happy to report I've moved past the 'rage stage' and found some healing with her and through working with Miriam here as well. 

If you have been traumatized we highly recommend seeking healing through a Psychologist who specializes in trauma therapy like our friend Paul in Uganda. (nkatapaul@gmail.com, WhatsApp  +256765480918). We had the privilege of speaking with Paul in Chat 8 which you can see here.

Our friend in Uganda specializes in trauma therapy

VBO memes are not for sensitive souls or the feint of heart. They are presented here not as an exercise in vicarious traumatization, but rather to allow the viewer to gain some sense of the raw trauma that I and other abortion survivors have experienced. I believe it also gives a relatively realistic response of a tiny human in utero if it was given adequate abilities to express itself knowing it was about to be violently dispatched.

Miriam on Diaper Changes

A mother isn’t bothered by a messy diaper or a child covered in vomit. We clean them off, sometimes singing to them or tickling them along the way and then we send them off to play.

As such a mom, I’m treating each Vulgar Buzz Original (VBO) as a child with a dirty diaper. I’m not bothered much by its stench and refuse to ignore the child because it is smelly or in this case, uttering crass vulgarities under dire duress, a completely understandable response to trauma.

It was pretty easy to imitate the VBO style with InDesign to make the more civil language version above. My intent in doing this is to begin bringing healing to the traumatized soul, like any mom would. In the end however, it isn't important which image helps a person make a better choice, it only matters that the message hits home before it is too late for the most vulnerable humans in the world.