’Tis the Season… for Holiday Overwhelm and Hallmark Hell.
Maybe the days are laced with more than a little overwhelm as you navigate the missing of what once was, or the ache for who is no longer here.
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Skylar Liberty Rose
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.
What If The Popular Truth Doesn’t Match Your Own Truth?
What if the crowd-pleasing words don't match the knowing that lives in your own body, the experiences that have formed your own history?
Bridges to the Next Breath: These Are the Hours.
These are the hours when the light floods everything, until the sunset reminds me that I am dying, that we are all dying, and that now is the time to live.
Creativity is Alchemy: Finding the Courage to Claim My Own Space.
It does not matter what budget I have, or what resources I have available to me, creativity will find a way to burst through.
The ‘Boss Babe’ Label and Other Things I Want to Burn.
We can reject the labels we don’t require. We don’t have to apologize for existing, for taking up space, for daring to demand a different outcome.
The Inconvenience of Women’s Anger.
It is our anger that ensures we keep fighting back against the healthcare and reproductive rights that we are under threat of losing.
The Stories We Shrink from and the Breaths That Count.
Adults take an average of 16 breaths per minute. That's 960 breaths an hour. That's 23,040 breaths a day. What if we made just one of those breaths count?
You Are Everything You Need to Remember.
It is strange how we persist in holding on so tightly to the hearts that harm us. Fear convinces us that an intolerable reality is a better friend than unknown possibility.
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.