friday was slutwalk toronto 2012! it was a lovely, hot day. the crowd was a vibrant, passionate group. the speakers at the end were amazing. i especially enjoyed the speeches by morgan m. page and ki...
i am blessed to be on this journey of healing. i was running from myself for so long. i’m ready to start facing myself, healing myself, loving myself and getting to know myself. and i know i do...
my last post got me to thinking about my relationship with disordered eating and fatphobia over the years. as i’ve mentioned previously i’ve had various forms of disordered eating through...
i want to talk about health. i recognize that health is a totally subjective concept and what ‘healthy’ means is different from person to person. this is about my understanding of what it...
you are not crazy. i know the feelings inside of you are so huge and so much and that no one is taking responsibility for the abuse you’ve experienced and you don’t know right from wrong ...
today marks one month of complete and total sobriety for me! <3
i learned to ride a bike at the age of 23 and i have been cycling all over the city, rain and shine and snow, for about two years now. at night, in storms, during rush hour, on the busiest streets, e...
i’ve been praying to the crone. feeling her old bones. the answers appear before me, the questions shift and change. i am grateful to be reborn. 1000 lives i’ve lived already and she has ...
1. aa and all the amazing, supportive people i’ve met there. 2. my bicycle. 3. my three lovely cats. 4. the goddess and all the adventures she sends me on. 5. my counselor. 6. feminism. 7. acti...
i’m not who i was. i’m not yet who i’m going to be. i don’t have it in me to make sense right now. i don’t have it in me to take my fucked up life and turn it into an in...
“love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.” – bell hooks have you ever been in a relationship where you felt neglected or mistreated and when you ...
i spent a good portion of the day yesterday picking up garbage in augusta park, in kensington market. it was a beautiful day and i went to the park to read a book. when i got there it was full of peo...
i had the opportunity to see nina arsenault, a toronto based multidisciplinary artist who works with themes of gender, beauty and the body, speak at buddies in bad times theatre tonight for the launc...
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recently, i had the opportunity and honour to be featured on local writer/activist black coffee poet’s website blackcoffeepoet.com! black coffee poet, in his own words, is “a mixed race p...
i have always touched my vulva since i was a baby because it’s a natural way to get to know the body. this touching was nice but it did not lead to sexual pleasure. i’m not sure at what a...
today marks one month without alcohol. but, i have decided that my ‘dry date’, the date marking my sobriety, was three days ago: april 20th. on april 20th (420) i decided to give up smoki...
i’m going to keep taking pictures of my psoriasis and posting them here, as part of my own process of self love and also to put positive non-shaming non-medical images of psoriasis into the wor...
i went to my third aa meeting on sunday. so far, i haven’t been to the same group twice. this one was held at an in patient facility. i didn’t realize that until i arrived and was let int...
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