Finding home & a sense of belonging within shifting identity politics of geography, region, language, politics, ideologies and culture.
Giving sex an easy place in my mind, required moving around the furniture inside my head – old traumas, inherited shame, cultural taboos. This book taught me flying.
Post COVID, life is uncertain but it’s an open road. Everything is a lesson, every meeting is a gift.
I’ve been in so many conversations. I’ve come back overflowing with so much. Then someone says hello and they pass.
I went back to my alma mater, this time as faculty. It brought me even more lessons. Back to school is always learning.
Closures have never been easy for me. 2022 feels like a long checklist. I have to go somewhere next but where and why?
We do not have a consensus on what love, commitment, sex or identity mean. Maybe we don’t need to agree. What do we owe each other then?
“Do they treat you well?” is a powerful question that somehow nobody in my world thought to ask me.
I’m often told I don’t look my age. What is complimentary about that?
I have been thinking about compassion. I find there’s no room for it in the stories we embrace to guide our lives. It is this that makes me feel I’m overflowing out of my body, spaces & life. What I have in me is labelled & pre-valued for tangible effects….
IdeaSmith is not just my name. It is an identity. It has been a journey. It became a saviour. And then a ray of hope in my hardest time.
