This post has been written for this month’s Self-Discovery Word by Word prompt: BRAVERY sponsored by Dana from The Body and The Brood. Want to participate? Please do! Read Dana’s post here, and check out the rules here. When I was a kid, I thought that bravery meant the grand sweeping …
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To get straight to the point – this post will make you uncomfortable if you are a) my mother b) my aunt c) anyone who has a genetic tie to me and is not under 25. Feel free to keep reading, and we’ll just chalk this up to one of those things you read and [...]
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Happy holidays, Marzipanlings! Please enjoy this repost from the very, very beginning stages of MM. xoxoox In a recent article written for The Herald-Sun entitled ”Recreational Hook-ups or Emotional Hang-ups?” author Kylie Harrell discusses the incoming freshman orientation at Duke University a mandatory meeting entitled “The Real Deal” where freshmen learn to make “responsible social decisions”. The article [...]
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When I was a little girl, we were on a family trip to Mexico, and my mother read Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books out loud to us every night before we went to bed. Clamoring for more, we would force her to read for hours, enthralled by the magical story and, for the first [...]
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This post is a part of Scarleteen’s Blog Carnival – an internet collaborative to raise funds for an organization providing REAL, sex positive information to teens online. I am proud to be a part of this effort, and fully support Scarleteen and it’s mission. When I was a kid, I was really lucky to have [...]
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There are very few words for how much I loved this interview. I wanted to share it with you here, as it represents so much of my own worldview, and in light of recent events it becomes only more and more important that we support children in feeling safe and allowing them to feel love [...]
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This week I am grateful that I am loved and accepted exactly the way that I am. It has been my experience that this kind of love is revolutionary. It has the power to move mountains, and make miracles happen. This kind of love is dual fold – it is the love that you feel [...]
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I was seven when my parent separated. They moved into separate parts of the house, then across the street from one another, and then ultimately, got divorced. Then they moved on, and began dating other people. My father had a series of girlfriends, some of whom lived with us and some that had other children. [...]
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I’m not a big fan of using quotation marks excessively, but as I’ve been thinking about this post all day, several thought have occured to me. I meant this to be a post geared towards women who fall outside of the increasingly small sociocultural window of acceptable body weight. I was thinking of girls who [...]
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When I was fourteen I became sexually active. Then, my desire for sexual intimacy spawned out of my perpetual need for personal validation. I was fat. I was scared. And the role models that I most aspired to be were those who were charismatic and provacative, with anyone and everyone falling at their feet. I [...]
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