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In times of uncertainty and change, when things seem dark or murky, the reality is that we can’t control everything that happens around us.
What we can control is our thoughts and what choose to think about, which relay to our feelings, and our actions and how we respond.
Let’s create our lives, communities, and the world by carefully choosing where we put our attention and thoughts, our gifts and skills, our energy, resources, and time.
The world needs your light and your love. Do not squander any of it.
Moving Beyond Fixed Identities
Judith Butler drew attention to the paradox of foundationalist frames which would fix or constrain “the very ‘subjects’ that it hopes to represent and liberate” in her groundbreaking book Gender Trouble. She asked us to consider that “if identities were no longer...
The Poetic & Revolutionary Love Life of Gertrude Stein & Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 - July 27, 1946) and Alice B. Toklas (April 30, 1877 - March 7, 1967) met on the first day Toklas arrived in Paris, in 1907. Toklas moved into Stein’s residence in 1910 and they were life-long partners until Stein’s death. In...
Understanding & Defining Gender & Sexual Variancy
On Gender… For the majority of people one's gender is simple, clear, and defined: one is either a man or a woman. There is nothing complicated about it. Our society has certain "womanly" or "manly" behaviours, traits, and expectations around what a man or...
Switching in Gender and Sexuality
What is Switching... To switch, and the process of engaging in the action of switching, can most broadly be described as dwelling in, and having the intention of, honoring, exploring, and sharing different, switchable aspects of a person: multiple or varied states of...
A Short History of Sex & Sexuality … Retelling Truths
“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings” (Shakespeare, Macbeth) To consider and be comfortable with authentic displays of variant genders and sexualities seems such a basic, healthy, productive, powerful, potentially opening and enlivening premise; yet,...
Identity, The Mind & Love in Jeanette Winterson’s Powerbook
“You need a label. But I’m not a piece of furniture with the price on the back.” (Jeanette Winterson, The Powerbook , 65). A facet at the heart of Jeanette Winterson's The Powerbook is the freedom that comes when no identity is present, when identity is not...