A Letter To Me From Me

A Letter To Me From Me

  Dear Lakota, thank you; I deeply appreciate all the unending and sometimes painful work you have been doing to heal your sexuality. Not everyone else sees the steps you’ve taken or knows the weight tied to your ankles during each step. Not everyone can see and...
Masturbation Is Where I Find Myself

Masturbation Is Where I Find Myself

  Speaking my mind has always been a really hard thing to do. Not only because I feared what everyone would think every time I spoke my truth, but also because I couldn’t hear my own truth. My whole life I saw my external world as more important, more prominent...
Shedding Menstrual Shame in the Sacred Space of Bodysex

Shedding Menstrual Shame in the Sacred Space of Bodysex

I stared at my period app calendar, frustrated that either it wasn’t right or my body wasn’t. I was supposed to have my period by now, in fact I’d intentionally planned this bodysex circle so that it would be just past the heavy days. Every time I went to the bathroom...
I Used to Hate My Pubic Hair

I Used to Hate My Pubic Hair

Sitting on the toilet, looking at the newly found dark curly hair between my legs, I feel horrified, and disgusted. I didn’t ask for these hairs, these weren’t supposed to happen until I was a grown adult, what are they doing here on my 9 year old body!?...