AMA – a short film by Julie Gautier from Les films engloutis on Vimeo. “Ama is a silent film. It tells a story everyone can interpret in their own way, based on their own experience. There is no imposition, only suggestions. I wanted to share my biggest pain in this life with this film. For…
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What is shame? Defined by Brene Brown, researcher of shame and vulnerability, shame is an unspoken epidemic in our culture. It affects everything. Brene defines shame as the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging – something we’ve experienced, done, or failed to do…
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EVERYDAY I celebrate my life as a women and the unique expression afforded to me in my true nature and in my gender. Every day I experience the undercurrent of an outdated system that is eroding away in the wake of women stepping into our power and men stepping into theirs. EVERYDAY I see the prejudice…
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On my 48th Birthday, I gathered with a small group of women and 3 maidens in circle near the river under the Pandanus trees. It was just after sunrise but the sun was beaming down strong and hot. We set up our circle of rugs and cushions, decorated the picnic rug with a rainbow of…
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“So much of religion and spirituality feels like it’s all a program to make ourselves into something less janky and like more pure– like it’s all designed to sand down our edges, to make us more smooth. As if with enough yoga, or meditation, or Bible studies, or whatever it is, we can be less…
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This is an exploration of grief. Not just my grief, but also the universality of grief. I write to find solace amidst the words and I write because I don’t know what else to do. I am not in any way special or unique in experiencing this profoundly confronting human emotion nor is this the…
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I want to shake you I want to hold you. My heart cracks to full I have been where you are It does no good it steals your dreams it puts a cog in your wheel I want to say, sing, shout and whisper to you to stop. stop: stop the lying to yourself and…
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It’s all so deeply triggering to me right now. I am not looking away. I am staying awake like the last sober person at a wedding. It’s hard to watch but I’ve been watching all my…
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Pressed flowers fade in dusty books unopened away from light, no room to breath Stay like a wildflower, unpicked let the wind and the rain come to you and dance in the field let the sun warm you and feel everything rooted in the soil of your own belonging – Lotus Indigo Shakti Kruse
There has been much polarisation going on amongst women. This gig called The Feminist Movement has many haters, dissers, critics, slammers, judges amongst women and not even far lefties or conservatives but liberal women, empowered women, self expressed women. I am still sitting in the depth of the dismissing of women exploring and being freely…
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