a journey of transformation
I’ve been in a funny mood all day. Yes, times are strange, we’re in a pandemic, we’ve been home for months, and things will likely never be the same as they were prior to this. It’s unsettling. But today, in particular, I felt strange: I watched youtube videos of gospel music. I’m not religious. I…
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This is from a chapter in Pleasure Activism authored by someone who experienced childhood sexual abuse, and although that has never been my experience, the paragraphs at the end of the chapter deeply resonated with me. This was specific to the author’s timeline of arriving at college, this narrative could just as easily have been…
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It’s like the prayer says God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference… Change is inevitable; a necessary force that is usually, ultimately a positive one. But we’re so programmed to resist change; to get into a routine…
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The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it. –Eartha Kitt As kids we were regularly admonished to “use your inside voice!” or some variant of the phrase. Usually spoken by an older matriarchal figure, a grey-haired teacher (a librarian in my case), whenever you got just a little too animated and loud in…
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like black butterflies 