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The Splendor of Sexual Fantasy.

When growing up in our society, we experience many different types of shaming messages about sex, and often this shame can be brought right to the surface when faced with a desire or fantasy that you don’t want to have, but at the same time, is an authentic desire. This situation is when it ...

poetry

You Are Safe, While You Are Not Safe. {poetry}

You have the prettiest heart I have ever seen. You have inspired more tears than any man, but my tears have songs inside them. You and I have been in crowded rooms, fully clothed, and still shared more intimacy than I have with any man who has been naked in my bed.

art

Adventure: the Cure for Stagnant Safety.

Courage trumps doubt. Faith trumps fear. And going on an adventure does not necessarily mean you have to fly across the country. It just means that you have to be willing to step outside your comfort zone.

troublemakers

I Like Taking Walks on the Dark Side.

In a room full of men, I’ll sniff out the one who’s recently been arrested or convicted for human trafficking or locked up in a mental institution. I can tell how bad his childhood was by the way he moves. Sick sense. The unhealthy, unhappy and inappropriate. These boys churn my stomach sick ...

feminism

Invoking the Red Tent: A Vow to My Wounded Sex.

I feel a snake, uncoiling; an energy, unfolding. I see an earthen star forming the five points -- the rooted stakes -- of my hearth’s tent. I see it rise, solid and strong. Stoic, in a way, as it holds within its walls all of the mysteries, the atrocities, the stories and the epiphanies leading ...

wisdom

Authenticity: Inhabiting Wildly Tender Revolution.

Congruent authenticity happens in the guts and bowels of your life. Being authentic is the grunt-work of the soul, of any deeply human, spiritual path. Being half here, half there, halfhearted, faking it to look good, strategizing to make things easier for your self — that’s the common way of ...

world

Orlando: This Is how It Lands in Me.

When I was a teenager, just starting to question, there was a horrific crime committed in my hometown where two brothers broke into the house of a gay couple and murdered them while they slept in their bed. I believed then that it would never be safe for me to be out. As a teenager, I expected ...

poetry

She Stood Alone On The Edge Of Darkness. {poetry}

The sun was setting, salmon clouds under a sky of Dodger blue, flocks of geese on a sprawling lawn. A waxing gibbous moon beckoned like she needed a guide, a divine light.

you & me

The Spaces Of Loneliness.

We won’t forget the unrelatable moments of emptiness. When the freedom we had once brandished as a flag turned into a freezing sword of guilt, of having left what we once had. When the fog around us got too thick, too thick to see anything, when fear knocked back on our doors, to suck all our ...

happiness

Thank Your Demons, Then Set Them Free.

Instead of waging war against those voices of doubt and despair, could you maybe thank them? They are working so very hard to try to keep you safe from hurt in the only way they can. How do they know that really you are stepping toward wholeness? It’s outside the world they know, and you always ...

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