Self-care is not the cure for everything.
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have built a foundation under my coaching practice by helping clients create sustainable, meaningful, and supportive self-care practices. If
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One place where everything comes together
Author: Confluence
An Open Letter to My White Sisters About our Role in Losing Roe v. Wade
Reading Time: 6 minutes The fight for our rights and freedom is not going to be convenient.
The revolution is not going to be comfortable.
We have to decide right now if we want to be free.
Religion Isn’t About Love
Reading Time: 2 minutes How many times do they forget to do something before it actually gets done, if they even heard us in the first place?
I get why dudes are all about it because it’s a tool to subjugate women… but the fuck if I will understand why any modern woman wants to keep that shit.
Fighting for abortion rights IS fighting for democracy
Reading Time: 4 minutes I know you are afraid of these things because we wouldn’t be spending our energy on outrage if we weren’t terrified.
We would, instead, be prepping for a war we know we’d win.
Women cannot lose if they decide to fight until all the old white men are out of office or in the ground.
We hold all the cards.
Every single one of them.
Thoughts on white woman’s safety and protecting black women
Reading Time: 5 minutes Confluence Daily is your daily news source for women in the know By: Lisa M. Hayes Several years ago, I
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‘Ketanji” is pronounced ke-tan-ji
Reading Time: < 1 minute Make no mistake, when a power-play, or an intentional act of exerting perceived dominance is at work, fucking around with someone’s name is the cheapest tool in the box for demonstrating disrespect.
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Stop Being Nice
Reading Time: 2 minutes I want to be remembered by the light of a fire that burns on the fuel of all the nice conversations I never had —
–and that is exactly what I want for you too.
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I think it’s past time for a rise of feminine villain energy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Women will have to save our democracy because men aren’t going to do it.
Women will have to dismantle both racism and the patriarchy because men aren’t going to do it.
How do we know that?
Because it isn’t fucking done, and it isn’t going to get done while we behave like fragile flowers in a vase on a shelf with an expiration date. We have been the women behind the men fighting for their way of life too long.
Men in the U.S. are not going to stop the rise of fascism.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Complaining, no matter how righteous it feels, no matter how loud, or how large your audience is, is not actually taking action.
Processing is important. Process with your people, IRL or online, if you must. Feel your feelings. However, do not mistake rage for action.
Christmas Quit Me Out of Mutual Disdain and the Holidays Have Never Felt More Joyful
Reading Time: 4 minutes This year, sweet baby Jesus, this year is one for the books. Two years of the pandemic with all the death, dying, illness, discord, fear, and fighting…
this year is requiring sacred closure with an urge I have never felt this strongly before. This year wants to be wrapped like a baby and put to bed with a lovingness that heals what it was. 2021 wants to be ritualized before we take the calendar off the wall.
