All of us pray, but in a different wayon our knees or on our feetwith our head bowed or the faces turned to heavenSome wrapped in prayer shawlswith beads between their fingersothers with rawhide rattlesand the drumbeat in their heartsSome go to splendid temples all across the globeothers in the quiet woodor in the desert … Weiterlesen Prayers
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Sexual Assault Awareness Month, observed each April, is a campaign that aims to increase awareness about the causes and risk factors for sexual assault and empower individuals to take steps to prevent it in their communities. Sexual harassment, assault and violence are ever present nowadays - if only it was only in TV series! But … Weiterlesen Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Une merveille
Mon corps est une merveille. C'est une pensée qui m'a traversé l'esprit ce matin. Ce n'est sûrement pas pour me vanter. C'est quelque chose que je n'aurais pas pu dire avant. J'ai passé ma vie à être en guerre avec mon corps pour toutes sortes de raisons, être trans en est seulement une partie. En … Weiterlesen Une merveille
Just another day
it's the 6th round todaytears running from a red eye bulgingfalling outwards from the socketimploding under the impactof an iron bar across my skullincandescent heatand cold iceat the same time poundingstabbingtearingconstantpainunilaterallysplitting me into halfstopping all thoughtscluster Yet afterwards stillthe feelingof a bulletlingeringin the backof your headhaving left a holein the frontallobe
On being mixed race
Is there a countryfor those of us who are mixed race?or maybe even a continent, a whole planet?The country I grew up indid not want meall the words I heardBlack, Carribean, Jewish, Indigenous,North African, white Too black, too this, too thatN-word flying,together with insults,fists, leather belts and sticksa bloodied nose and bruisesat the end of … Weiterlesen On being mixed race
Search/connect?
I've been doing quite a bit of thinking after seeing, reading and listening to the posts of various indigenous content creators whom I respect a great deal. I am an individual whose identity is comprised of so many parts -some of which are being intersex, trans and autistic-, and the search for my identity, roots, … Weiterlesen Search/connect?
Deadline
I have readthat there should be a time limiton reconnectiona deadlineto finding outon who you are That you shouldn't mentionthose you are not sure ofSo I'm taking downI'm still multitribalbut I'm only leaving upthose that I know for sureand carry the others in my heartthose that might-be I comprehendthere are those who take awaymaking money … Weiterlesen Deadline
Fresh waters
Sometimes searching for the ancestorsfeels like swimming upstream and then I remembermy friend from Hawaii who told methat I swim like a sharklike, water, that's your element So I take the plunge into the oceanand go with the flowborn againfrom the waters of Atabey's womb
Time
Time with youalwayspasses too fastBut every minutewith youseems worth moreThan a daywithout You
I’m not your Fetish.
I am unapologetically Tsalagi and Taino.I am Indigenous.I am Black.I am Jewish, too. I am Intersex.I am ftm.I am Asegi. I am a lot of things, and can be a lot of things.But I am nobody's fetish and refuse to be fetishized - be it for my race, skin color, for being trans or intersex … Weiterlesen I’m not your Fetish.
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