#61 Name: Elizabeth Age: 18 Location: TN Question: A week after Valentine’s Day I gave this girl a box of heart shaped chocolates. I was nervous and I don’t think I communicated well… I found out later that she actually went to my high school and I never knew it. My high school years were [...]
What Would Sappho Say? Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!) On one of the other sites this blog is posted on a woman trying to discover her sexuality asked innocently, “How does one know if she’s a lesbian before actually engaging with a girl if even straight girls like lesbian porn? I started [...]
As Alice blindly and without much forethought ran down the rabbit hole into Wonderland (or was it?) so do children born of their parents follow them into the family’s religious fold. It is a predestined plan, one the child has no control over and once indoctrinated will fight to the death for those beliefs as strongly as their parents before them.
I know we were all taught as children not to call each other names and we know how much racism hurts us as a culture (or at least I hope those reading this blog do) but there as so many more ways we use labels in our lives that shut us off from groups, from information, and from individuals and if you are anything like me, it takes someone pointing it out every now and then for a real wake up call to happen in your life so change can begin to rebuild your way of interacting in the world.
I have been thinking a lot about labels, lately. Specifically, the “L” word. No, not the show and not Laboutin (although if anyone wants to donate a pair of killer open-toe combat boots with a rockin’ stiletto heel, I take a size 6 ½). Lesbian. That’s the one. It may sound utterly ridiculous, especially as [...]
