After years of battling crippling depression and suicidal ideation, I’m finally learning what it means to me to choose life. Where I come from, a good death is something to earn, and earning a good death is a birthright. So I’ve come up with a short list of my own […]
There are only three things I remember about the 6th grade, and they all happened in social studies class. I remember meeting my friend Marc, the first person I ever met from the Philippines, who in college became my ballroom dance partner, and who is now living his best life […]
I think to make the I have to preface the story by disclosing that I was raped repeatedly between the ages of 3-5, and I only began to relate to how that experience impacted my life a little over 6 years ago. There were a lot of other lame, terrible […]
This is a Facebook post that hasn’t happened yet due to too much toxic shame….Here’s to starting somewhere….. Hey sweet people. I feel like I haven’t been all active out here for a long while now and I wanted to check in. I think people use twitter for stuff like […]
Dear India, As another woman in her early 40s whose been in the industry for 20 years, I wanted to thank you for sharing your Instagram post about the Grammys. Your career has been a beacon of light for so many from the beginning, with your launch stating it clearly […]
I’ve been noticing lately that I haven’t had a lot to say. My eye is so often fixed on the state of humanity and right now I find myself baffled. I have no idea where to begin to jump in on the “larger discourse.” Feels a little like double dutch… […]
What’s it like to be me right now? Right now I’m feeling called out. Today, as I was working through some of my hangups about putting myself out there with my mentor, I realized I often have the hardest time in the world being direct. I’m sometimes a sideways communicator, […]
What’s it like to be me right now? Well, right now I find myself feeling a little weak in the belly…a little light in the head with a little heat behind my eyes. Sometimes this is my body telling me I’m nervous. Sometimes knowing I’m nervous let’s me know that […]
