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  • Deconstructing spiritual gentrification

    One of my heroes, Elizabeth Gilbert, did a phenomenal talk about how spirituality is geared towards men. And when they preach about being selfless, this is actually advice that’s towards men, and that women need to become more selfish. I was reading an esoteric book about souls and spirituality, and I noticed that the language…

  • Partnership is an escape strategy

    I think love is about walking each other out of the prison of shame that is the system of imperfect love that we are born into. Thus, partnership, and marriage in its most powerful form is an exit strategy from oppression, whether in the form of capitalism and/or abusive structures. The problem with the failing…

  • Discernment is the labour of the rich

    I noticed that people trapped in poverty have an inability to discern good from bad, and poverty is maintained within a community when that lack of discernment is enforced socially.  Poverty is not financial, capitalism has distorted the meaning of poverty. poverty is a lack of safety.  physical labor and emotional labor is taught as…

  • The failed mother

    The patriarchy is the collective psychosis that somewhere out there exists a man, an idea of a man, who is superior to a woman. That is a physical impossibility. At most a man can be is equal to a woman. There will always exist a greater woman. But a man cannot set or sustain a…

  • You don’t realize

    You don’t really realize how scared you are Because language is so slippery Saying that you’re scared implies that you deserve for someone to comfort you But that’s not the kind of fear you have You have the kind of fear where everyone seems stronger and braver than you Every single person  Without exception And…

  • my nodal birthday

     Currently, there is a massive astrological energy surrounding my North Node in the early degrees of Aquarius. So I believe Venus, the sun, I think Mercury and Mars as well. They’re all grouping around my North Node, and North Node is the node of destiny or my purpose in this life, which leads me to…