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graduated and finally celebrated, i anticipated being met in this achievement. i felt like the awkward kid who hung around the high school after they graduated, poking fun of people a year younger than them and acting as if the teachers were their drinking buddies. for this reason, i was jumping for my friends at read more.
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this sunday is yet another annual return on sacrifices made during lenten season. usually, people give things up on ash wednesday and continue to omit those things and number of other things from their lives until easter. this season, i decided to journal everyday about how i identify religion. i have held many relationships with read more.
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In the most recent episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the queens were presented with a main stage challenge of holding a panel discussion about men. I sort of found it robust, people (mostly male identifying people) dressed in a feminine illusion discussing toxic masculinity. The Gloria’s explain that racism and sexism are intertwined and both read more.
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“love is patient, love is kind. love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. it does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.” i have always reflected on this verse, so much that i questioned read more.
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it’s the damn season where solitude becomes the denominating activity, underlining nights of forced entertainment and poorly chosen outfits under 5 year old puffer jackets. i would rather just stay inside and watch the glow of the sun transfer into the warm lighting of my bedside lamp, where comfort is contained under my bedsheets and read more.
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