Halloween! When I was a kid we were never allowed to celebrate Halloween because it was the devil’s holiday, or something like that. So naturally a part of me always really wanted to. This one time, though, I did go to a church’s “Harvest Festival” where they encouraged us to dress up as our favorite biblical characters. I went as the actual Bible.
Read moreReclaiming My Time
To your past experiences that have hurt you, they don’t have to define your future. Reclaiming my time. To the present struggles trying to steal your joy, you can tell them to piss off. Reclaiming my time.
So naturally I wanted to embroider it.
Read moreMe too. Ugh.
I’ve gone back and forth about writing about “Me too.” I shared it on my Facebook page, but without a story, because it felt too exhausting. And also very obvious. Because I, like just about every female-identified person on earth, can rattle off far to many instances where I’ve been demeaned, cat called, followed, harassed, belittled, groped, made to feel unsafe, and otherwise targeted for existing in public as a woman.
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