MY LOVES!!! We have an update about our Mother’s Day Love Flash Mob with The Compassion Collective! We have been WORKING OUR LOVE WARRIOR BUTTS OFF TO CREATE AN OFFERING WORTHY OF YOU. In the weeks since your giving, we’ve continued our work for refugees abroad BUT SINCE LOVE IS BOTH/AND…. we’ve also been collaborating with incredible individuals and organizations serving homeless young people all over the United States. Oh my gosh. The kids and the people who run the programs — SWEET FANCY MOSES THESE LOVE WARRIORS ARE SO FREAKING AMAZING. You are going to fall so in love with them….
Quit Hating Her
WARNING: Contains profanity & triggering language. Got this message on my public Facebook page last night. I get these kind of messages often. It is not possible to be a woman who speaks up about anything and NOT receive messages like this. Misogynists have threatened to rape me, come to my home and kill my family, and silence me in myriad violent ways — and more often than not, when there is this kind of hateful message the word they call me is: Cunt. Cunt is a hard word. It makes us cringe right? It feels scary. Words feel scary…
Pe-TISH-ion
Two nights ago, my ten-year-old daughter, Tish, who is a younger version of me (in every wonderful, terrifying way) sat on my bed and said with a shaky voice, “Mama, the other girls are all skinny. Why am I different?” I stared at her and silently lost my mind. Ten is when I noticed my differentness, too. Ten is when I decided there was something wrong with me and became bulimic. My life became a total shit storm for the next twenty years. And as I sat on that bed with my baby, I swear to you I became ten…