@lora-mathis - Tumblr Blog

How come ur etsy shop link doesnt work? Did you close your store? I wanna reblog your posts with links to support your work..you're THE lora mathis right?

yes lol

just signed onto Tumblr for the first time in a looooong time

don't have Etsy anymore. not selling anything myself rn, but I have books for sale via https://www.babandfriends.com

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by Lora Mathis Prints available here.

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from the zine No Mist by Lora Mathis (2017) Available here.

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By Lora Mathis.

New essay on Recenter Press. Looked at anger as a response to grief, and my process of unlearning toxic communications of it, while also validating the experiences that caused it. Anger is a twisting, mangled root, and working through it involves breaking the soil to trace it to the stem. I want to break my family’s cyclical fury. I want to validate myself in a way I have been searching for my whole life — in a hoped for apology in my mother, in the safety I create with my friends. I want to forgive myself for the ways I have taken out a hurt too big for me to understand — both on myself and others — and to do better. I want expressing my hurt to leave me feeling well-articulated and clear-headed, not ashamed. I want to grant myself permission to move forward. I want to keep writing myself into understanding; my fingers deep in thick soil, my anger an uprooted thing drying out on the dirt, shriveling in the clarifying Southern Californian sunlight.