ever since i was young, i’ve felt like i was from a different culture, and was dropped into this one by a stork. somewhere along the way, i decided to stick by this, and honor the integrity of my original culture, and not get too deep into this dominant culture that i still feel like…
i passed 3 tween girls doing a coordinated dance for tiktok on a walk recognition: that’s me. memory: when i was a kid, i wanted to play jump rope and hand-clapping games with the girls, instead of kickball and four-square. the boys were always trying to win, and would spike the ball; girls were smiling…
here’s the thing that’s so hard to reconcile as i move into the last third of my life: as much as i appear to my peers to overshare about my inner life, i feel like a tentative teenager when i consider the world i thought i would find myself in as an adult human, growing…
I鈥檓 60Mf (that鈥檚 how I鈥檝e been indicating a male-presenting femme-relating person). I鈥檝e always known that I鈥檓 different on the inside, and I鈥檓 so glad that it is becoming normalized to express ourselves about the nuances of our experiences relative to gender. I鈥檝e also recently been diagnosed AuDHD, and that has really helped me understand a…
all the little things you do are done for love.
don鈥檛 doubt it. shout about it.
shout about the things you do for love.
(it鈥檚 about the little things)
When one offers a request for respect
(reasonable)
one seems to hear a demand for compliance
(white)
i鈥檝e always wanted a friend
who would send
poems to my inbox
and lately i鈥檝e been
i don鈥檛 know
if it鈥檚 funny
or sad
that people can read
Here’s a bite-sized piece maybe someone can digest and apply across a spectrum of environments (if someone’s mind is flexible enough): There are people sitting next to you (or maybe even you) for whom a click of a button on a website unleashes a host of unexpected sensory and cognitive attacks, in the form of…
