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NinaIllingworth May 25, 2021November 5, 2022 ACAB, affordable housing, anti-poor propaganda, austerity, CA4, capitalism, class war, coronavirus, Covid 19, cycles of poverty, dehumanization, Depression, extraction of rents, Facebook Journals, hidden effects of homelessness, homeless, homeless people are people, homelessness in Canada, homelessness in the UK, homelessness in the US, homelessness is not a choice, housing crisis, housing is a human right, humanizing the homeless, inadequate support networks, informal writing, injustice, investor class, invisible, JA5, Journals, landlords, living on the streets, mental health, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, pandemic, personal, policing, Poor Laws, poverty, poverty in the Pig Empire, poverty is not a character flaw, rentier class, rents, shelters, shuffling the poor around, Social Darwinism, Social Justice, social safety net, ST2, stress, workhouse

What They Never Tell You About Being Homeless

A lengthy personal journal discussing the hidden psychological conditions inspired by homelessness and poverty in the Pig Empire.

Personal Police State Site Updates Social Justice

NinaIllingworth March 27, 2021November 5, 2022 Alex Reid Ross, anti-trans propaganda, back to work, blog, blogging, Capitol Hill coup attempt, censorship, Depression, emo ramblings, FA1, Facebook, Facebook Journal, fake antifascists, fake leftist, fascism, feeling attacked, frustration, Glenn Greenwald, isolation, Jesse Singal, Jimmy Dore, mercenaries, MP6, Nina Illingworth, online left, online political influence ops, personal, police harassment, police state, reactionaries, shadow war, silencing, Site Updates, Social Justice, social media, targeting, where I've been, writer's block

Facebook Update: I Caught A Sad

A Facebook update on where I’ve been for the last couple weeks that unfortunately, ongoing online censorship forces me to reprint here on my website. Vaguely personal.

Blog Fiction Personal Site Updates

NinaIllingworth May 3, 2019January 29, 2021 alcohol, bad writing, blog, Depression, don't call the cops, Fiction, Hunter S Thompson, long absence, Nina Illingworth, none of this is real, personal, profanity is praxis, Site Updates, strong language

A Letter to the Editor’s Desk (From Facebook)

A Facebook Journal update about one of my extended absences in 2019, written in the style of Hunter S. Thompson for no reason at all.

Censorship Personal Site Updates Social Media

NinaIllingworth September 7, 2017January 1, 2021 censorship, Depression, Facebook, fighting a losing battle, frustrated, Google, Mastodon, Nina Illingworth, ninaillingworth dot com, not getting any help, Orwellian, Patreon, personal, Politics, rich tech libertarians, Site Updates, social media, suspended, thinking of quitting, too cool for school, Twitter, want to quit, wrongthink

More Twitter Censorship Drama & Why It Might Mean the End of My Writing “Career”

A short and angry blog post about Twitter censorship and the Blue Checkmark hierarchy.

Fiction Personal

NinaIllingworth April 20, 2016December 30, 2020 Anxiety, Depression, Fiction, Louie Louie, Nina Illingworth, personal, Rebirth, Renewal, Short Fiction, Starting Over, Stories, The Reconstruction of Walter Emanuel

The Reconstruction of Walter Emanuel

Editor’s note: this is one of the first short stories I wrote after more than a decade away from writing fiction and was originally carried on my blog sportsballchic.com in the summer of 2015. My intention, was to portray a man struggling to overcome his own depression and anxiety problems after a long period of disconnection/isolation in the most humane, realistic way possible. All too often, stories about mental health begin and end with tired, melodramatic tropes that fail to recognize that an alienating sense of “otherness” may in fact be a completely rational response to an unfeeling, unloving and at times completely absurd world around us. But for time and pressure, we are all Walter Emanuel and it is my sincerest hope that I’ve told his story with the dignity, compassion and hopefulness it deserves. – NI

Opinion Politics Rants Videos

NinaIllingworth April 15, 2016November 5, 2022 A Zoo Story, anonymous ranting, Cat, class war, corruption, Crime, Depression, don't give up, Everyone Is Wrong But Me, fanaticism, Humor, JA5, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Op-Ed, Opinion, Philosophy, police violence, Politics, Racism, Rants, Technology, Video, Young People, Youtube

Everyone is Wrong But Me Episode 3: A Zoo Story

Nina continues her conversation with the mysterious old cat, who this time wants to talk about the importance of remaining true to yourself in a world made of lies.

Sports Sports Humor

NinaIllingworth April 10, 2016December 30, 2020 Depression, Detroit Lions, Football, Futility, Humor, NFL, Op-Ed, Sports

The Feeble and the Damage Done

It’s not easy being a Lions fan and it never has been – Nina examines why in this short, 2015 essay.