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We are taught to carry shame before we carry knowledge. From the first blood, the body is marked as dangerous, sexualized, unpredictable, in need of c

If every life is sacred, why is so little done to sustain it once it exists, whether in war, in poverty, in prisons, or in the steady neglect of those

I will not romanticize this. Autonomy is not gentle, and it is not romantic. It requires confrontation. It demands recognition of the body as a politi

All I know is what I have words for

we live with a quiet, often unspoken tension- the aching desire to be truly seen, understood and accepted, yet simultaneously, the impulse to hide, to

Maybe cognitive minimalism— identifying which mental loops actually matter, and pruning the rest— isn't deprivation but liberation.

Love is merciless because in its raw elemental form, it is non-negotiable, it does not ask for reciprocation or for our affections to be requited, lov

If being ignored hollows us out, then being truly seen (not liked, not followed, not “engaged with”) but seen, can feel almost unbearable. Because whi

Audre Lorde defines the erotic as “a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our un

In order to perpetuate itself, everyoppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of theoppressed that can prov

Of course, women so empowered are dangerous. So we are taught to separate the eroticdemand from most vital areas of our lives other than sex. And the