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Announcing Six Oh Four North…Finally
SIX-OH-FOUR-NORTH “You’re too new, come back when you have more experience,” “this isn’t the kind of writing we do, sorry we’re not interested.” “Maybe when you’ve had some more experience working with cannabis.” On and on and on it goes in this industry. Everyone wants to experience it, but few people want to talk about…
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“Can You Do One For The Girls?” For The Girls* Who Refuse To Behave
“A true plague of a girl. And yet a Queen in every sense of the word.”― Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn So with Samhain coming up – a holiday I fucking hate for the same reason vampires and demons do I might add (sooo cliche,) – I decided I wanted to celebrate by doing something…
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In The Before Times God Made The Rules, Now In 2022, Women Make The Rules, Here They Are…Do Get Over It, It’s Done, You Lose
TRIGGER WARNING FOR MEN: THIS POST MAY CAUSE SOME ANXIETY, AND MAY MAKE YOU FEEL AS IF YOUR BALLS ARE ABOUT TO SHRIVEL UP AND DIE…THAT’S OKAY THERE’S STILL A RAZOR FOR THAT – YOU WILL SURVIVE, BUT ONLY IF YOU FOLLOW THE RULES. The Ten Commandments That Might (we stress might,) save an abuser’s…
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From A Queen In The Making, To A Queen Gone
Who were you? You owned corgies, you worked in the field during the war, but you refused to help so many when you could have with a literal wave of a wand. You donated billions to charity but largely ignored Africa until it was time to visit, you stifled hundreds of thousands of people simply…
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#SurreyBC is About to #Vote, It’s Time To Remember Our Neighbors
Before we get to vote in October, I thought I’d share some experiences while working in the non-profit sector of Surrey British Columbia. I started at XXX’s when I was in my late teens, but by then I’d already had several years almost a decade, working with folks every weekend who needed a little extra…
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What To Do When You Think You’re Losing Your Mind…
I’ve been thinking a lot about love letters, and the prisoners and soldiers of the world tend to get a lot of letters. Men, women, and non-binary folks are always writing someone, children especially, but how often have YOU in particular sat down to write a love letter to someone that matters? To you I…
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#Writing Shamelessly, And Other Questions on Your Mind
“Where, When, How, Did Free Writing The Way You Do, Become A Thing For You?“ This is where it started for me. A lot of my influence comes from John Hughs’s films. Pump up the Volume, Sixteen Candles, all the stories of the 80s and 90s that talked about youth being disenfranchised, alone, left out,…
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I Learned Some New Words: Coercive Control And Sexual (read Rape) Coercion
Right before bed last night, I learned the words “Sexual Coercion,” and it occurred to me, that I’ve been talking about not knowing words for a while. A Very long while, primarily because I didn’t know the terms, and when people ask me how that’s possible, I tell them very plainly, that no one taught…
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Big Feelings on A Day I Woke Up
I swore when I got my tattoo – a Black Panther, with the words “Killed by Death,” that I would never, ever take my own life. If the universe wants me gone, it’s going to have to work hard to make that happen, because I’m not giving up this…existence, no matter how much it sucks.…
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Frustration, Anger, and How To Speak To the Black Community About Abuse
Each of us needs to get super honest about what has been happening in the Black community. If you haven’t read one of the thousands of articles about Tiffany Hadish, I want to point to one in particular that I want to loosely quote, because I don’t have access to the original article. Basically what…
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The Family Letter – That’s A Curtain Call
I don’t know if you’ll see this, but I need you and the world to know. You were loved. You were loved, and I was afraid. I didn’t say anything because you had someone, and you loved her, and I saw that you loved her, and I wanted you to love. Anyone, anything, I didn’t…
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