The thing about memories of bullying, body shaming, abuse, violence, assault is that they’re intangible. It’s even hard to capture them in words. Yet, they lodge in pieces inside the body & erode the insides with every breath. When those insides are housed in a female body, it’s not a house as much as a warzone. Courtroom for custody battles.
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If I were fifteen years younger, I’d identify as nonbinary. It would be on my bio, I would write and speak about it. Or maybe not, it’s hard to tell. I’ve always been such an off-the-beaten-path kind of person. Then again, I don’t know if that’s just because the beaten path beat me down so often and mercilessly. So why
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Harshaman’s Stories talk about feeling the tug between two places – one that feels like home and one that is dutifully home. It took me back to my own crossroads when I was the age he is at now. Freshly minted adult in a dirty metropolis, I was charmed by the fresh bloom of the garden city. It was the
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I think people are afraid to listen because they are afraid they might hear their own stories. I think we are afraid of poetry because it makes us confront the lies we tell and how we pretend they’re beautiful. I think there is courage in holding onto our denials. And there’s a demented wisdom in letting them dance in front
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The second dark COVID of my soul is here except it doesn’t feel quite as dark. The first time round, the sickness punched me right across my worst pain points (just like my ex) and left me reeling, disoriented, unfocussed. Things happened after that, mostly without my plan, calendar dates passed, meetings came and went, opportunities may have cropped up
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From Scratch on Netflix is one of my serendipitous finds. Most entertainment feels too disruptive, volatile, jarring. There’s something angry & brutish about even supposedly happy/light content like comedy, food stories, design shows etc. So finding a show or movie that isn’t like that is always delicious. They don’t have to be about light topics, they don’t need to avoid
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