Empowerment
This post is exceptionally passionate and, therefore, curse words abound. You’ve been warned, you adorable human, you!* Some got straight A’s. Some never swore or revealed their shoulders. Some never dated. Some joined extra-curricular activities and clubs. A few may...
Empowerment
Sitting on my hard bunk bed in the middle of a hostel in the heart of Taichung, Taiwan, I took a deep breath and clicked ‘delete.’ In the blink of an eye, I became invisible to the world. My likes, my “friends”, my entire identity suddenly vanished. And yet as I sat...
Empowerment
The natural world is a magnificent one. Full of life, functioning in ways we are still attempting to understand. Personally, while I always had a great love of animals, plants seemed to be relatively ignored. I didn’t mean to ignore them, but I was never taught about...
Empowerment
If you were born a woman, odds are extremely high that you were raised as one. This means certain beliefs, values, expectations, etc. were forced upon you as a child, and have stuck with you all your life. These beliefs shaped how we saw the world and ourselves and...
Empowerment
This may seem like a dumb question, but as someone who unknowingly grew up in a cult, I can tell you it’s definitely NOT a dumb question. No one in a cult knows they’re in a cult. Asking the question is brave, not dumb. And those who are brave enough to ask the...
Empowerment
Limiting this list to five was quite the challenge. From birth to age twenty-seven, I grew up in a cult by the name of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or Mormonism). Say what you will about organized religion and cults, but these sexist beliefs are...
