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Colors. Everywhere. Rainbows on flags, on clothes, on faces. Colors on costumes, colors on vehicles, colors on buildings. Everything is so colorful, it literally feels like the darkness in your life is being chased away. You walk and dance…
Moving countries teaches you that calendars are not neutral. The date everyone treats as normal is usually just the one with the most institutional power.
A triskelion, or triskele, can hold many different meanings. It can symbolize any kind of motion, like progress, actions, or cycles. It can also symbolize any three major elements that are heavily interwoven. Traditionally, it is tied to t…
There are certain people who, after a certain turning point in their lives, we think become someone else. We start comparing them with who they were before by saying things like “the old X” and “the new X,” i.e. Miley Cyrus. I hate it. Who…
A court ruling can change the law in a day. The rainbow means something older and harder won than a single verdict, because it also carries blood, bruise, shelter, and witness.
Boundaries are real, needs are real, and relationships require effort. But if someone's love depends on your shrinking into a more convenient version of yourself, that is not intimacy. That is a transaction.
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