Christmas lights burned in my retina ( Read more... )

"For a woman to be a lesbian in a male-supremacist, capitalist, misogynist, racist, homophobic, imperialist culture, such as that of North America, is an act of resistance" (Cheryl Clarke, 1981)

I want to talk about the way my insides felt like the shiny mysterious undersides of seashells when her eyes lifted and her hips shifted

I want to talk about three men who tapped on my door wanting to know more, as I hid dodging  broad siding a piece of my identity compromising and waiting to regenerate.

I want to feel the butterflies they ( Read more... )

I fight like a girl who refuses to be a victim.
I fight like a girl who's tired of being IGNORED and HUMORED and BEATEN and RAPED.
I fight like a girl who's sick of not being taken seriously.
I fight like a girl who's been pushed too far.
I fight like a girl who OFFERS and DEMANDS RESPECT.
I fight like a girl who has a lifetime of
ANGER and STRENGTH and ( Read more... )

Somewhere on the edge of humanity

I play Russian roulette with blanks and a bullet,

We war like pirates and our melody revolves like swinging piñatas

As nostalgia plays hopscotch on our backs.

We use to play god,

Jumping freight trains and meandering in oblivion

Feeling for carpet fuzz and tasting wax lips.

A curios existence in a shifting ( Read more... )

A little rusty I've been feeling meandering about waiting to be inspired. Self-demise can be such a curse particularly when I consider the importance of intrinsic control and my own lack of self-efficacy. I'm slowly becoming acclimated to the calmness of solitude and the sound of my own voice. My journey lately has been a bit more about ( Read more... )

Wow, So I've been doing a bit of lurking about reading my friends journals and letting mine collet it's own virtual cobwebs. Since my last post not much is new I graced the frontpage of the newspaper in my town for trying to get married to a friend of mine who also is a woman. It was a bit controversial because we aren't partners. Are intentions ( Read more... )

"I felt her gaze warm against my cheek and held my breath uncertain as too alleviate those long-past middle school jiters and monarch butterflies dancing in my tummy." 

I've had enough of my own belly-aching about the stunts Bush is attempting by banning gay-marriages. So I've decided to do something. Some other gals from my women's studies class and I have created a Student Organization called "Humans for Gay and Lesbian Marriage Equality" AKA Marriage revolution. Our plans include lobbying legislature, tabling ( Read more... )

Yaay, I got a loan so I can get on my feet after graduation. Two months and counting. I was offered a job in Southern CA and Michigan and I respectfully declined, I must be crazy. Actually I'm going to stay here for 1 more year to get financially confortable before I make a drastic move. I am looking at taking a job for a Tx facility serving ( Read more... )