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…
Category: Iconic Voices: The Real Work
Guest posts that embody specific medicine of authenticity and soul.
#DangerousBlackKids A Love Letter From Hood Feminists to Our Children
#DangerousBlackKids A Love Letter From Hood Feminists to Our Children.
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…
The Belle Jar
To end my night of writing, of peaking and sighing with the tides of me and the never-grey grey today outside my window California sky, there is this…which runs in me like a holy scroll of eternal-law-divine for writing, for poetry, for psyche, for soul…Meaning here, here the reason I do all of it, bc…
Iconic Voices: Brianne Chavez and Conscious Sexuality
Today begins a new feature on Wild Women Wisdom. Inspired by Seattle street artist Kristina Cyr and her Iconic Women series, I now present Iconic Voices. Iconic Voices will be a periodic feature of different guest writers. In homage to Kristina, these guest writers all uniquely embody the “right to living the kind of life…
A Few Words on the Soul
by Wislawa Szymborska We have a soul at times. No one’s got it non-stop, for keeps. Day after day, year after year may pass without it. Sometimes it will settle for awhile only in childhood’s fears and raptures. Sometimes only in astonishment that we are old. It rarely lends a hand in uphill tasks, like moving…
Soul-work is NOT self-esteem!
Now, it’s important to clarify some ideas. This work, soul work, it can edge up next to concepts that are self-helpy and lots of people, including myself, get eye rolls when it comes to that subject. Yea, it seems to surprise people when they learn that I shrink at New Agey I’m okay you’re okay…
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