Not tolerated here: upholders of white supremacy, sexism/misogyny/misogynoir/transmisogyny/transphobia/homophobia. 30 year old BlaQueer nonbinary femme (they/them) on Nansemond land. Resident crisis & trauma therapist. Poet, cultural facilitator, anti-racism educator. let’s grow together and get free✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼
I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.
Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.
The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.
I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.
Me existing at the intersection of being an associate director of a new center with no director, switching to a hybrid WFH schedule, and preparing to give birth in under 7 weeks while still navigating a global panini 😮💨
the hotel I’m staying in is having a chihuahua conference??? some lady told me there were over 300 chihuahuas in the building and if I wanted to, I could go watch the puppy competition in the morning. I’m in Heaven
I can’t believe it’s been 20 years. She’s been gone almost as long as she live, and her impact continues to be felt. I’ll never not love her.
“From childhood I knew I wanted to be an actress and dancer; a total entertainer, I would sit in a movie theatre, thinking, ‘one day I’ll be on that silver screen, sometimes I look at where I am in life and what I’ve achieved at this age and think wow”
Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 - August 25, 2001)