HeyJaredBlaqube
A glimpse of life in the cracks where mothering, othering and a deep desire for belonging meet. Here I write about memories of new, old and current worlds hoping I would hit a chord and make your heart say "uh."
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Rupture, Relating and Repair (opens the original)
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Rupture wears out our selfhood, our identities and relationships, only the well loved fray at the edges and yet, fray edges call for repair. I think of Japanese kintsugi and I think of patchwork as processes of repair that reinvent objects rather than try to force their original form on them. In most of my daily encounters with other adults, mostly my parents and siblings, I’m the othered one. I keep trying to think of this as their way of loving me, a preference to force some shape on me that I
Cardboard Identities, Cartoonish Roles and Scripted Relating (opens the original)
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The quick version of this: You know when people assume a role but don’t fill it? I find that absolutely ridiculous because we end up dealing with a cardboard version of a role that was cartoonishly defined and I’m just sick of it.<img a
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