Is it anger? Is it pain? It is fear? I’m going to tell you a secret. It’s none of these things. These are the gifts you bring to your hidden self and put away like unopened presents from people you wish would have given you their selves instead. You take…
You’re uncomfortable in silences. In sighs. In whispers. In conversations. How do you feel about holding hands?
I grew up feeling like my life would follow the same path as other people – work and you shall achieve, be and you shall receive. It baffled me when I was attacked or called entitled for this, when the boys I knew, weren’t. I wrote about this often. I…
Writing was my catharsis, till it became my crutch. A paper plane showed me the way out.
Hey you in the dark. Have you looked my way lately? I exist.
You are not other people’s expectations.
You may look back more often than the world tells you that you should. Maybe you should memory dive more.
Eye contact. All the things it holds.
Shamir Reuben, popular poet & head of content at Kommune was accused of soliciting nude pictures from an underage woman.
SXonomics was covered in LA-based publications GirlTalkHQ.