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Understanding Anemia: A Personal Journey to Recovery
It’s been a major while since I posted one of these, because I really don’t talk about my present life these days. I mostly talk about my past, as many of you already know. But as many of you also know, over the last few years I’ve been complaining ad nauseum, about the fact that…
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Pride Month 2025: Reflection and Action
Every year for Pride, except the last few years, I’ve planned a great outfit, done my hair and makeup, and had a great time being proud of being myself. Pride for me has always been an escape. When I go to Pride, I don’t – usually – have to worry about seeing my abusers, but…
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Some People Love Chaos…I Am Not One of Them
I take deep offense to the term “Being woke,” because for a lot of decades in my life, I was hypnotized with mind altering drugs, and raped by grown white men, pretending to be something they weren’t to scare me into silence. For more than thirty years, it worked. Until they did it again, and…
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They Demanded Loyalty…But I’m Not A Dog
I wasn’t in a fucking gang. I was a Princess, adopted by my stepfather’s family, and taken care of like a little girl who had the whole world waiting to see what she would become. I remember once a boy raped me, my grandfather’s family’s form of revenge wasn’t to go to the police. It…
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I Don’t Do This Shit For Validation…But You Bet Your ass I Want It
I want to know that the little girl who went through Hell, just so that I could exist, didn’t go there alone, for no reason. I want her life to have had value and to matter. I was a child sex toy, and that’s it. My family had no idea, no one knew, at least…
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So…That’s What Drugs Are For…
It’s probably bad that I ran out of cannabis the same week I did mushrooms two nights in a row, right?/ I have learned that there is a huge crash after using mushrooms – having done it a half dozen times by now, I should know better. The cannabis helps with the crash; it helps…
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Cannabis, Coping, and Change: A Personal Reflection
So it’s been a minute, and I thought since it has, I’d take some time to answer some questions that have been rolling around in my head or online for a while. Some of these I’ve answered before, some I haven’t, but let’s dig into it, shall we? Who Are You? I am Devon J…
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Canada Is Not A Fucking Joke
I know right now, many Americans who voted for Donald J Trump are looking to Canada as a place to escape to. One of the many reasons Americans want to come here is that we’re cheaper, kinder, and right next door. I don’t want you here. If you voted for Trump, you will vote for…
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“She’s a Crazy Bitch…Burn Her”, And Other Ways To Protect The Patriarchy
I’ve been called a crazy bitch more than once in my life, and every time, it comes from one of two places: I am tired of the narrative that women who come forward also deserve to be gaslit into thinking they are crazy and that what was done to them is somehow their fault. Men…
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Why We Need to Rethink Voting in Canada
It was a narrow win, but it was a win nonetheless. And now, yet again, we have a Liberal government. I guess that was fairly predictable. It wouldn’t have been if Justin Trudeau had been running for office again, of course. Yes, he was young, and when he first ran, he seemed fresh, filled with…
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The Power of Voice: Breaking Silence After Abuse
When I started this site, I was highly focused. I had to be. Everything had to be said, in the moment, right then and there. I had to cut all ties, burn all bridges, and cut everyone, place, and thing out of my life, before I was ready to explode. But explode I did. For…
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Empowering Women: Join the Stay Lifted Sis Community
When I first started my Facebook Community, the plan was to help Black, Brown, and Indigenous women learn branding skills so they could tell their stories and weaponize their experiences against those who hurt them. However…that’s a very depressing mission. So I changed the name to Stay Lifted Sis because I realized that all the…
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