Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on.

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.