When I was seven, my next door neighbor accidentally pushed me over while we were out roller skating. Over my tears, my mom told me: “Forgive and forget” while putting bandaids on my scraped knees. At fourteen, someone stepped on my brand new Vans that I’d been excited to wear for weeks . When I […]
Read More Not All Healing Begins With ‘Forgive and Forget’One day you are living the normal college life, going to class, hanging out with friends, working, keeping up with endless social activities and responsibilities. The next day, your world shatters. You get a phone call and maybe you freeze, maybe you scream, maybe you cry. But before you can begin to grieve, classes continue, […]
Read More Let’s talk about Grief in college.I want to add a quick Trigger Warning because this article will discuss topics of consent and sexual assault. This article is personal and also a bit of a bummer. No matter how uncomfortable, it is important to speak about. Our society’s understanding of consent is evolutionary, and has changed so much, even in just […]
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Read More A Tail of EmPAWerment: Dedicated to My Emotional Support DogCW: discussions of rape, sexual violence, and trauma. Let me preface this post, I’d like to invite people to read my bio. I feel that learning more about my feminist/humanist perspective will help readers understand where I’m coming from and hopefully reach a larger crowd. As I said in my previous post, I will be […]
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