Dear Averaged-Sized Body-Positive Writers, Advocates, and Influencers, I'm not sure how to put this in a nice way, but seeing you often leave me and please like me - actual fat people that is - and our feelings out of your rants, tips, and unsolicited advice columns I don't care too much about being nice, … Continue reading An Open Letter to the Body-Positive Community
With my twenty-fifth birthday approaching next month, it is almost impossible not to focus on the hard truth that thirty is just around the corner. I keep finding myself wishing I did more in college or planning adventures in my head that seem to be too unrealistic to happen. Instead of regretting things I did not do … Continue reading My 30 Under 30 Bucket List
i haven't written in so long i don't know where to begin. do i talk about the days or the weeks or the months since i last put a pen to paper; since i last sat still long enough to acknowledge to understand to accept everything that's been cluttering my mind. thoughts and emotions and … Continue reading it feels weird to write again
if you’re looking for a girl to spend your night with bodies intertwined, tangling underneath soft pink bed sheets who will cook you breakfast in the morning, pour black coffee into her favorite mug and put it in your cold hands i’m not the girl you want but if you want a girl to meet … Continue reading
photographs tell the tales words won’t dare to write and in every photo i’m pictured in i looked the same: smiling but never sincerely physically i’m there but you can see in the way my gaze shys from the camera i’m not truly present. a girl lost in her own world wishing for a way … Continue reading
i’d love to hear about the tea people pour about me. how bitter is it? do they serve it hot, steam over spilling from the rim heated with anger or perhaps they let it cool down a bit before letting it flow over icy words? do they candy coat it with tons of sugar to … Continue reading
With the much anticipated release of Gretchen Gomez's second collection, Welcome to Ghost Town, coming this fall I thought I would share my review here, seeing I featured Gomez's debut Love, and You earlier this summer. I had the honor of being one of the handful of people the author shared her final copy with early, and … Continue reading Welcome to Ghost Town: Review
It all started with a tweet asking people to not call me a lesbian... Recently, more than ever, sexuality has been a common conversation topic - in the media, in politics, in every day life. There are people who are very vocal about not supporting queer* folk: politicians attempting to pass bills about "gay rights" … Continue reading How biphobia pushed me into a different closet
As I (not so) patiently wait for Gretchen Gomez's release of her second collection, Welcome to Ghost Town I decided this was the perfect time to reread her debut, an Amazon best seller, Love, and You I first read Love, and You about a year ago right after the end of a toxic and all around … Continue reading Love, and you
It's been one year this month that I seriously started writing my debut book, Shattered Pieces - a collection of poems and prose about my experiences falling in love with someone who ended up being extremely toxic and manipulative. The collection follows my journey from falling in love, being cheated on, learning to live without her, to … Continue reading Shattered Pieces Playlist
