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Tag: Healing
the hard children
the world is a hard place so we raise children with fire and brimstone with grit We harden them to the embodied parts of themselves. prize reason,… Read more “the hard children”
waking up to myself
I am here waking up to myself. It is as if I came from a long slumber, where who I was, who I became, was predetermined by… Read more “waking up to myself”
-dear diary
all I used to have were unfinished thoughts dear diary… fragmented parts of myself, that stopped writing at the fear of being uncovered. having your privacy violated,… Read more “-dear diary”
-breaking apart
sometimes, it feels as though I’m melting spreading into lather-like substance losing firmness consistency breaking apart, slowly- irrevocably a withered fern losing its light other times, melting… Read more “-breaking apart”
1 Year Later: A Happy Birthday To Me
31 May 2018 The Healing It’s The Afroist’s birthday today, and I am all sorts of emotional having just reread the first post I wrote one year… Read more “1 Year Later: A Happy Birthday To Me”
-peace studies
I am a scholar of peace. I have written the essays on conflict, peace, and security. I have defined peace debated it, and deconstructed it many times.… Read more “-peace studies”
-the unsent letter
I hate when you say you love me or miss me I gave up on you after the countless times you pushed away my outstretched hands I… Read more “-the unsent letter”
vacillating self love
on body positivity- a critique of the notion of the totality of body-positivity.
Choosing Single
an essay and some poetry on love, self-love and singlehood
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