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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There has been a lot of chatter around here, both on MM and on Twitter, about long distance relationships – How to make them work? DO they work in the first place? Are there tricks to making them work better? What if you are just not cut out for long distance relationships; are you a [...]
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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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Last month Ashley of Nourishing the Soul introduced a blogger series entitled Self Discovery, Word by Word. The prompt for October was Gratitude, and in response I wrote a post about feeling gratitude for the conversations within the LGBT community in response to the multiple teen suicides. This month the series is being hosted by [...]
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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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Well. It has been QUITE some time since we had an ask marzipan around these parts, but let it be noted that I will basically answer ANY question that you shoot my way via email [medicinalmarzipan at gmail], twitter, or leave below in the comments. I will say this about questions – I guarantee that [...]
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Two years ago I was reckless. I was busying myself with running around and making out with everyone that I set my eyes on. I was moving too quickly, forgetting to eat, and abusing my body with lack of sleep and constant motion. I went dancing every night. I got myself to a place where [...]
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Yes. It’s as simple as that. But don’t you worry – I’ll elaborate, if only because I’m not really an answer-in-one-word-kind-of-girl, if you know what I mean, and since you read this blog, I’m fairly certain that you do. This question has been sort of circulating around the internet as of late, particularly in regards [...]
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After the smashing and unexpected success of this week’s what if wednesday, What IF: I Start Making Sex a Priority? I have decided that the topic certainly warrants some major elaboration. For example? I didn’t even broach the topic of masturbation in the original post, and, well, ahem, masturbation is kind of crucial. Now as [...]
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