miresistencia

The canyon.

I live here.

House of Cards: Why not calling myself a Feminist often seems like the most pro-femi thing I can do.

You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me–what I’m thinking. What I’m doing? Circling my little room. Rump directing and redirecting like a yellow jacket about to take sweet you know? I was getting ready to write. Circling the whole of my apartment, a single little room because Woolf was right, it’s a tenant of feminism with which I…

Nother Sunday holla

Ahhh, so this song which SHOOK me today: Nina Simone radio on Pandora; hula-hooping for no reason other than the hips wanna move; thank love & human hearts this exists; following #dangerousblackkids on Twit; random surfer encounters on the side of PCH followed by unexpectedly rad Valentine’s Day dates; our first trans-dialectic Salon for next…

Psyche

The story of Psyche tells of a mortal woman taken to a mysterious castle to be married to a fierce dragon. Her husband comes to her in the middle of the night, and she falls in love with him. Told that she must never look upon his face, she disobeys this injunction and…

She stayed.

I hope, with deepest love, that you also know the Mary, Maria, Mir-yam, Guadalupe of wilder heart, of long journeys with a blurred map,of night fires at the far encampment that you know the Old Lady who in the old stories, when nearly all the apostles ran away… She stayed… Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I appreciated.

I drove home in the dark, the gauzy moon with its still bald yearning through all that haze. These women. I appreciated. Nor is from Thailand. She is studying psychology at OCC. Dani from Brasil, going through a sadness that has no name. Laura, from Romania, waiting on her green card. I stood at the…

Let’s talk love.

Check out my latest post at Dandelion Mom’s, talking bout LOVE xoox Happy Valentine’s!

Vintage Kadada. Rock n Roll Tuesdays. Bratmobile.

So like, I had made this blog one time, like, to get over this guy it was my reminder to me that i thought for myself and loved music long before he had come along & made it all weepy for me & so like, last night i was feeling really self-indulgent & like oh…

This is so ucking famazing

Bc i still get stars in my eyes when i hear Erin Smith’s name bc my first Riot Grrrl zine showed up w a hand penned note from her bc i was 14 & who knows what woulda happened if she hadn’t bc i’m 36 & still find its the rg diy ways that i…