An Ode to My Mum: The Life She Led.
The boundaries and constraints of the culture within which she lived her daily life limited and controlled any free will she may have wished to express.
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culture
Stairways to Heaven: A Dream Vision.
For the briefest nanosecond, a pair of white stairways resembled the Sikh couple in the ballroom, and in that recognition the Light came.
There’s a Little Zipper Under Your Chin. {poetry}
Let me pull that zipper down
Let me unzip your skin
Let me unzip mine too and you can step in
Let’s spend the day in each other’s skin tones
Breaking Free from Patriarchy, One Thought at a Time.
"I’m ugly, fat, old. I’m not successful. I’m smart. I’m stupid. I’m special." I'm sending these thoughts back to the patriarchy with no return address.
Silently Screaming For the Voiceless From Within the Prison of my Culture.
I don't know how to reconcile the reality that most people don't believe we've been doing these things for a long time, while my culture says I can't talk about it.
Rise, Authentic Woman: A Manifesto for a New Female Mythology.
Women’s interests have become not only separate from male interests, but niche and specialized, as if, instead of half the human population, we form a very exclusive tiny minority interested in little else other than handbags, makeup and boys. Well, stuff that.
The Joy of Swearing.
I discovered the joy of swearing at an early age, despite (or maybe because of) parents who seldom swore and strongly discouraged their three daughters from doing so.
Don’t Buy the Snake Oil: When Patriarchy Masquerades as Tantra.
Drink this snake oil, and you will be fixed/enlightened/saved. Take this workshop, and you will be feminine enough to catch an awakened man.
Building Beloved Community.
North Carolina’s struggle with #HB2 is merely one of many examples that hampers our ability to build a beloved community rooted in a humane morality.
It’s Against My Religion to Accommodate Nazis.
A deeper cut reveals a culture of psychopathy: a party sickened by its hatred, misogyny and xenophobia; grown too accustomed to deceit; blaming others for its missteps; compromised by a paralysis of ideas; resorting to character assassination and abject humiliation of perceived enemies; ...