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Your Daily Inspiration / Affirmation:

 Letting Go

It is not enough

deciding to open. 

You must plunge your fingers

into your navel, with your two hands

split open,

spill out the lizards and horned toads 

the orchids and the sunflowers,

turn the maze inside out. 

Shake it. 

Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Understanding & Defining Gender & Sexual Variancy

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...

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A Short History of Sex & Sexuality … Retelling Truths

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,...

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Switching in Gender and Sexuality

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...

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