Warrior Woman, I See You and Believe You.
We have all ages alive inside of us right now, and we can go back and resource ourselves in the past. I believe we can do this for others too.
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assault
Creativity as a Container for Truth: Art in the Time of the #MeToo Movement.
The lens through which our art is seen and studied can have a definite bias if, for example, our #MeToo stories are in the public forum.
Why I Posted ‘Me Too’ as My Status, and Why It Still Matters.
I’ve been ogled at, cat-called, and groped in ways that left me feeling small, ugly, icky, angry, uncool, too sensitive. I think it’s enough to say, #MeToo.
The Magnitude of #MeToo: A Lifelong Curriculum in Cultivating Courage.
#MeToo means we’re human. We’re all full of confusion and delusion and fear. And the more we share, the more we move through our fear.
From Power to Power.
You see, it is not my mission to empower anybody. I cannot help but recognize that the word itself entails that power is being 'given' instead of revealed. I cannot give something that is already the very basis of who you -- who we -- are.
For the Women like You. {poetry}
She held his gaze.
She told me she had put on all
the layers of clothes
she could,
before he told her
to get
in the back
of the truck.
A jacket over a jacket over a jacket.
His chin-drool.
She held his gaze steady.
I Confess: Another Witch out of the Broom Closet.
The Witch path is one of the most revolutionary extant spiritual paths. This craft tends to include an ever-widening circle of women, people of color, LGTBQ folk and rebellious men.
What Actually Happened.
What actually happened was that I would very quickly learn there was a different set of rules for the beneficiaries of a patriarchal society that was intentionally built to best serve, to only serve, a very specific demographic.
Learning to Be Well: Detecting and Dismantling Fear-Based Manipulation.
Anansi and the Maroon and indigenous dwellers of the jungle had indirectly taught me that my 'primitive brain' and instinctual self, contrary to popular Western belief, were not ruled by fear and existential angst.
Boys will be boys, and other uttered nonsense.
Suggesting that the Stanford rapist's actions were a mistake caused by alcohol is to suggest that every man has an inner rapist, and that there is a line -- perhaps 5 drinks, or perhaps 10 -- that, when crossed, turns men into animals incapable of self-control.