HeyJaredRadical Vulnerability
Too many of us have been told that we have big feelings, so we suppress them, numb them, or hide them. This is your permission to feel out loud, get it wrong, love unapologetically, and live with radical vulnerability. Because we are all stronger together
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To Women, When Did Your Body Became a Problem? (opens the original)
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This is an expanded version of what I wrote during one of our writing workshops for our upcoming anthology, The Red Thread: Notes on Becoming. Want to join the next writing workshop or submit a piece? Keep reading for more information!One day in second grade, I cried to my mother when I got home. Some boys snickered and whispered to each other, “Tayler S. got a big butt.”Proportions for Black girls have always been sexualized, no matter how much of it still comes from our baby fat. I had a round
Nayyirah Waheed v. Rupi Kaur (opens the original)
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I have been following the Nayyirah Waheed and Rupi Kaur debate since 2016. I found Rupi Kaur, like most of us, through Instagram. I enjoyed the short, punchy, feminist poems, perfectly formatted and curated for the direction social media was heading anyway. We were shifting away from blogs and thinkpieces in favor of short, shareable (and memeable) soundbites as our attention spans waned to the duration of a 30-second ad.I was still new to reading poetry. I didn’t know many famous page poets of
She Taught Me To Be Afraid of Dogs (opens the original)
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This is a new thing for me. I wrote this story this week in my notes app on a walk this week. This is the first time I’ve published a flash fiction piece, so please be nice… Read more
Permission to Fail (opens the original)
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I feel like all of my Substack posts have become reflections on my therapy sessions. There is something about this vulnerability project that becomes so freeing. I struggle to work through my addiction to perfection. I know it isn’t good for me.I told my therapist that I am reading Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg1 and was inspired to fill a notebook every month because I just need to write. I even started and had a good two days of putting on an album to serve as m
We Accept the Love We Think We Deserve (opens the original)
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I have been chatting with various friends recently about the cesspool that is dating in this current timeline, mostly the plight of my friends who are romantically attracted to men. I could go on ad nauseum about the stories of audacity, entitlement, lack of care, and blatant harm from first dates and tales from the early “talking” stage. I blame location a lot (the South is home to some of the most narrow-minded across the spectrum). I blame the frustrating apps that turn love into a business.
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