This is what silencing looks like

Originally posted on Left at the Lights:
I didn’t celebrate International Women’s Day. I didn’t feel I had the right to. I’ve known for a while that maybe I’m not allowed to call myself a feminist because of the way feminism isn’t really much about real equality (justice), or hasn’t been for quite some time…

Cycles of creativity

Thanks for this, Andrea! As a woman, cyclical knowing is our cherished knowing: the phases of living, that include, as the moon, a wane or dying, though not to entirety but on a continuum: that we grow new again. Like spirals, on and on. I am thinking the most lately about the soul life, the…

Erika Robuck & Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Today is Erika Robuck’s third release from Penguin/Nal, Fallen Beauty, an historical fiction novel starring Edna St. Vincent Millay. Millay, a rebel devotee of love and passion, of Life, a dazzling revelrous madwoman who brutally demanded what it means to live out of life: from the timeless space of fear and love, devotion, desperation, soul,…

Monday.

Yesterday I was blessed to get to sacred journey with Derynne & Sepi. The purpose was for power symbols for the wisdom work. The imaginal is so powerful. We are so powerful. Today my energy is running totally different. Feeling grateful, offering thanks~

Rape Culture at the University of Ottawa

Originally posted on The Belle Jar:
On February 10th, Anne Marie Roy, president of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa, was sent screenshots of a chat that had taken place earlier in the month between two student federation board members and several other students who are either elected to or participate in various…

Why I Stopped Identifying With White Feminism

Originally posted on ofcourseitsaboutyou:
(Inspired by @SamAmbreen’s post here: We will not let white feminism divide and conquer us) Today I’ve been talking with @HadleyFreeman about a series of posts she made to @JudeinLondon earlier in the day. Short story: Freeman wrote a problematic article, Jude discussed it on Twitter without linking to Freeman, someone…