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The Gift of the Deep Feminine
Stop.
Let’s do an experiment.
From now til December, let’s do the above and blog about what the results.
Game?
Okay, let’s explore:Â How our bodies transform, if we eat like we love ourselves. What we will attract if we move like we love ourselves. How people will respond to us if we speak as if we love ourselves in as many situations as we can manage. How people will react to us in general, if we act like we love ourselves.
Except for the ultra and supremely self accepting – what do you think that is going to look like? If you have body, aging, confidence, or performance issues? How do you think your life might change if you add loving what you bring and how you’re bringing it?
I mean what if we change the context of what we’re doing?  To loving every meal we eat?To loving our own unique brand of loving, loving our tastes, our expression, our dress, our carriage, loving our voice or our silence? Gifts or lack of them? To loving exactly what we are, as is, exceedingly.
So, notice where there is a lack of love for yourself, re-imagine the experience of that on the spot, watch what unfolds as you do, take count of the results. Record somehow. Continue on. Notice the next inner lip curling or sneer at yourself when you stumble onto something you don’t care for (again).
Now repeat.
Re-imagine.
Questioning the Cult of Busy
Source: Questioning the Cult of Busy
Into My Sea of No.
They see female significance, or a color aspect, and it spells amateur. Now add in the trans aspect and it hooks damn near everyone’s bias. So I think I’ll be getting no around every corner too, for a while.
But the word no, is funny. Rejection grows you, and the growth is multilayered.
It’s given me insight around the nature of bias and people’s reaction to a thing that disturbs them in the most microscopic but also in some larger ways (institutionalized bias). And let me tell you, that is its own study. Now whether or not, all that translates into anything interesting for a viewer, depends on my defining an audience, then shaping a narrative from that cloth (it rests in my ability to create a soulfully impactful piece from that nugget).
Alright. Onward … into my sea of no.
Activist Janet Mock Flips the Script, Asks Alicia Menendez to Prove Her Womanhood
Activist Janet Mock Flips the Script, Asks Alicia Menendez to Prove Her Womanhood
Text from fusion.net
The on-air feud between trans activist Janet Mock and former CNN host Piers Morgan made many of us in media reconsider our perceptions and approaches to stories about and relating to the trans community.
Many other journalists have been criticized for focusing their interviews with trans role models and activists around genitalia and gender reassignment surgery. This kind of questioning ultimately reduces a complex question of identity into one of physicality. But it’s tough to imagine just how invasive and humiliating those questions can be until you’re standing in their shoes.
Alicia experiences that firsthand when Mock flips the script and asks Alicia to share what it’s like to be a cisgender woman (a woman who self identifies with the sex and gender that was assigned to her at birth).
Credit: Alicia Menendez, Claudia Pou, Ignacio Torres, Cleo Stiller-Farrell, Andrea Torres, Jess Blank
don´t judge …
People are rarely what they appear… *rarely.*
Activism Can Be Talking About It. We Create Narratives With Our Conversations…
…and I say we have to start being our planet’s keeper. Including the life forms inhabiting it, along with us. When we don’t care, we fail to police greed, abuse, brutality and the balance of a system of survival which helps ours upon tracking. Yes people are now making a good living of this, but so are pimps of trafficked women and children in the world. Does that mean they should be able to continue so their houses can be decorated, or so that they are eating steak dinners at the expense of life or sanity somewhere else?
In my opinion, no.
The world community was doing really great, shunning the purchase of Ivory for a while. The demand for it went way down. When I was little it was the material of beautiful jewelry, but as I grew up, it suddenly became shameful, and I saw it no where. But when you did there was a strange ‘Ewww,’ sentiment attached. So the education, worked, once.
Once upon a time I lived in a region where ivory was ‘the’ material to have for jewelry. It was kinda the rage in Africa, then. Then time passed and the view transformed (as far as I saw).
Even when I moved to the U.S. it was still the rage. But from then to now, Ivory went from being openly displayed in stores to non existent on store shelves. It became shameful for stores to sell.
But desire for and the relationship to Ivory, is changing once again. Poaching has become a lucrative job again and acquiring Ivory “in,” for some in China. The New York Times recently ran a piece, tackling some of the issues with this and the U.S. is preparing to help tackle the problem, to bring it under control.
However I think we can all be a part of this shift, with our conversations, tweeting, blogging, even art work. Why should the planet continue to be victim to our emerging needs, which fuel systems we made up to begin with?
I say we say “No,” to the return of this trend.
AND…THERE’S MORE:
Help if you can.
American students’ solidarity against Bahrain dictatorship
Godtisx:
This concerns me because Medical Staff in regions where there is conflict should be respected. Their work should not be interrupted and I sincerely believe they should not be held for treating people. But from what I am reading there are several human rights violations happening (the violence against Bahraini women a part). But this, and the audio on this page…
http://www.hrw.org/world-report-2012/world-report-2012-bahrain
…gives a good overview and context for the problems.What to do? Well Amnesty International has several responses as it applies to the different violations. Please see:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/bahrain
And if you live in NYC and want to join forces in a letter writing campaign – EMAIL ME!
This video is called Free the medics in Bahrain. Roula al-Saffar. Appeal.
From the Irish Medical Times:
TCD student petitions the White House on Bahrain
March 7, 2013 By Lloyd Mudiwa
In support of their medical colleagues in Bahrain, medical students Adam Boissonneault and Megan Clary have jointly constructed a petition on the White House to “withdraw US support of the al-Khalifa regime, which continues to violate the human rights of its citizens”.
The Gulf state has previously rejected any claims of human rights abuses against its own citizens.
The petition by American Boissonneault, a third-year medical student at Trinity College Dublin, and Clary, a second-year medical student at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, can be found at http://wh.gov/vqfP.
UPDATE August 2013: that petition is no longer there.
Formed on February 18, the petition, seeking 100,000 signatures by March 20, had 113 signatures at the…
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Listening (Bahrain). Then…comes action…
Since February 2011, the violent repression against the protest movement in Bahrain led to human rights violations that affected, and even specifically targeted, women’s rights.
This report will examine the implementation of key observations made by the CEDAW Committee in 2008 and highlight the consequences of the current crisis in Bahrain on the fundamental rights and freedoms of women.
http://bahrainrights.hopto.org/en/node/6333
From Godtisx:
The report lays it out.
Thank-you Kitty for bringing this to our attention. I will be researching what actions are to be taken here to assist and will post on this again.
Archaic Sugar 
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