Tag: Yugen
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We Need to Talk About How Power Protects Itself
You know that sinking feeling when you realize the people who were supposed to protect you are actually protecting each other? Yeah. Let’s sit with that for a second. Maybe a few more seconds. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately—how institutions that claim to stand for justice are often riddled with people covering…
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Burning the Throne: Real Justice in Rotten Systems
When you realize the system is rigged, it’s tempting to give up on justice completely. If abusers keep getting promoted, if complaints go nowhere, if whistleblowers are punished — what’s the point of trying to make anything right? In Yugen, Vian reaches that breaking point. Faced with a god’s empty throne and an institution that…
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Found Family After Betrayal
One of the cruelest tricks of corrupt institutions is convincing you that they are your only home. “That’s just how it is everywhere.”“You’ll never find a place like this again.”“We’re your family.” So when you finally leave — or get forced out — the loneliness can be suffocating. You didn’t just lose a job or…
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You’re Not Crazy. You’ve Been Betrayed: Trauma, Gaslighting, and the Guardians of Yugen
Long before people leave broken institutions, their bodies and minds start keeping score. Sleeplessness. Anxiety. Dissociation. A constant sense of walking on eggshells. From the outside, it looks like you’re “not coping well.” From the inside, it feels like you’re disintegrating. And when leadership tells you “everything is fine,” you start wondering if the problem…
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“Not Leadership Material”: How Institutions Crush the Vians of the World (Yugen and Real-Life Betrayal)
If you’ve ever watched someone far less ethical leapfrog into a promotion above you, you know the peculiar mix of rage and self-doubt that follows. You start wondering: In Yugen, Vian is the kind of person any sane order would want to promote: disciplined, gifted, fiercely loyal. Instead, he’s systematically sabotaged and discarded. And that’s…
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The Chosen One
The Chose One
Janessa Keeling 