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An open conversation about abusive relationships, sexual assault, and the importance of cultivating healthy boundaries. What signs to look for, the meaning of boundaries, and how to set them.

new podcast ep. on abusive relationships, sexual assault, and the importance of cultivating healthy boundaries 🦋

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Renewal, intuition, and finding comfort in the unpredictable. The importance of letting go of control, implementing new and healthy habits into our lives gradually, and learning to listen to our intuition.

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The Portuguese language feels like liquid poetry. Yes, it can be harsh sometimes - it can be solid and hard to digest. But there is something… I love how “silêncio” (silence) sounds - how you prolong the word in “io” almost into oblivion - “ê” is harsh, but the rest of the word simply… goes into oblivion, into total silence. I like to play with my language, with the sounds - “oceano” is quite similar to its translation ‘ocean’, but mar (sea) sounds like a wave. Amor is similar to amour (love), but softer, I think - the ‘r’ sound is almost invisible. Portuguese feels like being touched by the waves. Mermaid is “sereia”, and it feels like touching the waves - as if the waves had given birth to that word.

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Sante D’Orazio Photoshoot - 2000

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On a basic conceptual level our society doesn’t want women to know that lesbianism is even a possibility. It’s seen as a threat when women assert their lesbianism, but love between women is fundamentally trivialized and the intention is to make it appear that way so that aforementioned threat never arises. I remember when I told my mama I was a homo the first thing she said was “It’s normal to think women are pretty” and “I love my female friends” in an attempt to trivialize my love for women. It was only until I asserted myself as being very much romantically involved with women in a way that was incompatible with heterosexuality that she broke out into hysterics lol. It makes me wonder how many women are living unhappy lives because lesbianism is abstracted and isolated so far away from women as a mere conceptual reality.