• Yes, Toxic Positivity Is A Thing…And The Best Solution Is To Roll Your Eyes, Ignore It, And Keep Screaming

    We talk about toxic masculinity, toxic negativity, and toxicity a lot here on LMBG, and around the world, but do we ever talk about toxic positivity? No? Let’s do that. Toxic positivity is an obsession with positive thinking. It is the belief that people should put a positive spin on all experiences, even those that are…

  • Anhar al-Dik is a 25-year-old Palestinian Mother Who Is Due To Give Birth In An Israeli Prison Cell

    Okay so above is the tweet that activated the online social media keyboard warrior side of my brain. On the right is the verbal response I had to this outrageous story, and below is a deeper explanation for those who don’t want to, or are unable to watch the video. “He’s All That” is a…

  • Story Sharing: #BeAGuest #FindAGuest: Podcasting 101

    Okay so I have some experience in this arena, AND I want to talk about ANYTHING other than trauma, so I thought I would revisit one of my favorite topics which just happens to be story sharing. I was super nervous when I started Comfortably, Uncomfortable, Conversations, but I only really started it because the…

  • Stay Lifted Sis

    So yesterday I had to see my Psych Nurse and my Psychiatrist, and after the meetings were both over I took a moment to say thank you. Of all the people in my life who have helped me get to this point, they are the two most important. They have sat with me while I…

  • “That Decision Can Wait…But Right Now I Have Work To Do” Age Nine, Devon J Hall

    I was nine years old when it happened, when I realized that one day I WOULD have the power that I didn’t yet have. The power to fight back, the power to stand up, the power to embrace all that I could be to fight back against what was done to me. My whole life…

  • The Truth of It All: A Letter to Krisya Ohana

    In a hundred billion, trillion years, I never thought that I would ever ever, be the girl who tells the world that there are layers to this planet, and this existence, that I will never understand. “Never backward, always forward. Always.” -Luke Cage This quote is one that I’ve been repeating to myself for awhile…

  • The Story of Star Children

    For the purposes of this post, the things you are going to read are about domestic violence from a woman’s perspective, at the hands of the men in her life. That being said Domestic Violence does not have a gender identity. It happens in EVERY community, regardless of race, creed, color, nationality and size. Please…

  • The PATHOLOGICAL Lies, That Abusers Tell, To Excuse Their Behavior And Avoid Consequences

    So I missed SummerSlam today, because I was so focused on listening to the voices of my abusers tell me how much I wanted it, and how much I “liked” what they did to me, and you know what? Fuck that bullshit. “In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in…

  • Dance And Sing as If The Angels See And Hear You

    In the days of TRIBES, when the warriors of the tribe knew that the ENEMY were on their doorsteps, the warriors would DANCE and sing, and raise ENERGY. The purpose of this was to make enough noise that the Gods and Goddesses would hear, and come and help the tribe, protect them, from those that…

  • ANNOUNCEMENT: Comfortably Uncomfortable Conversations Is Now Stay Lifted Sis

    For the first few years of this website, literally everything that I have done has focused around the traumatic events of my past. Every single thing that I’ve written about has been in an effort to combat the horrible awful things that have been done to me, and to others around the province of this…

  • Little Boys And Girls Who Learn To Fight Back, Are The Most Terrifying Creatures On This Planet

    In grade two or three, three I think, we had to write the every few year dumbass exam that told the province how smart, stupid, or in the middle they thought we were according to standards that our brains shouldn’t really have been able to understand. In one of the sections we had to write…

  • The Difference Between Me and Her Is My Origin Story

    Devon J Hall There are days on this planet, when I look back at my life and think that I am nuts. There are days on this planet when I can be looking someone in the eyes and I know without a shadow of a doubt they aren’t seeing “me,” they are seeing “her.” MY…