A person cannot be possessed or smothered to nothing. Your anger is a sign that you are alive and kicking. Contentment will draw the right people, but first contentment often has to be discovered alone. Stick with it ❤️
I wish I had used this platform more. To be candid in the safety of this quiet account, I'm likely to leave all of my established socials behind. With the end of a taxing marriage has come the end of several other relationships, my old home, my old job, my old THOUGHTS.
I'm only hoping that I've finally learned the right lessons from the chain of dominant friends, family, and partners in my life that I've been drawn to because they're familiar, then ran from because they hurt me.
Think about this verdict by asking yourself would this moment of accountability have been possible if it weren’t for the courage of a 17-year-old girl to record and share what was happening to George Floyd. #GeorgeFloyd#DerekChauvinTrial
@Authoralexp You ever watch an artist or musician take you through their magical, elaborate backstory and feel like WaHT, that was a whole ✨novel✨, a pure legend, whhy 🤌 is it so hard to flesh out prose? 😭
The 5 D's of bystander intervention that we learned from @iHollaback: Distract. Delegate. Document. Delay. Direct.
Use our tips to better document as an upstander tactic for intervening in hate: https://t.co/jnmqivYGtn
Yesterday a man in Atlanta shot and killed 8 people in massage parlors, 6 of whom were of Asian descent, and 7 of whom were women. His reason? He struggled with sex addiction, and wanted to cut off his temptation.
In addition to terrorizing Asian Ameri… https://t.co/C3SGiT015h
“Do you prefer hounds or flames?”
I had wound myself into something inescapable and unending. A blind, unknowable forward in which Thiemo was master of the games, but I knew that in all games, I had no chance if I didn’t strike back.
“Hounds. I am tired of sweating.” #amwriting
Pain can be a vessel for courage reflection and strength; it can ignite the loudest voice from the depths of your silence and awaken the greatest resilience.
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