Self-acceptance

  • Your Red Rubber Ball

    The world will wear you down.  It will teach you that you’re not smart enough, not pretty enough, not the right skin colour, not the right gender or sexuality, not good enough at your job. It will teach you that you should do your laundry differently, grow grass in your front yard, wear the right…

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  • New Year, Old Me

    The temptation to remake myself every new year is strong. I love the idea of fresh starts. New notebooks, a fresh stack of paper, a new pen, a clean slate. Leave who you are in the old year and begin again. Be whoever you wish you could be. Fix whatever is wrong with you.  But…

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  • Pieces of Me

    You’ve only seen pieces of me, of course. It’s sort of a convention for women in my smutty community to post pics of themselves on Wednesdays. It started out as a body positivity exercise, spearheaded by two amazing women who decided to encourage us to show ourselves to each other. What resulted was a weekly…

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