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Feb
Author Archive | Lotus Kruse
21
Feb
Why I Dance from Why I Dance Film on Vimeo. The proceeds of our original track will benefit the California Women’s Law Center, fighting for social justice for women and girls. Purchase here: whyidance.bandcamp.com Why I Dance is a pole dance film about women who come together to reclaim their bodies and themselves. In…
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13
Feb
We met in a bookshelf of time. a space by the sea you come all book bound and tongue tied I gift you with my silent smile and free from words but full of sound, we made poetry, and ever since. Sometimes it’s a quatrain, others a line of prose You with your staccato alliteration…
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7
Feb
” We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou I am moved to post this here in homage to the alchemy of things. The butterfly is such a universal totem for women in our journeys because it is…
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6
Feb
Watch this beautifully expressed dance theatre that explores the inner tensions, unkindness,sweetness and humbleness that moves through our body. How we are in our inner landscape as a human.
5
Feb
Standing in the kitchen by the light of the kettle, I find my way around to make my early morning tea. I stir the honey like a prayer wheel. The sun begins to call its intended coming with the hem of its skirt showing. There is light everywhere in this kitchen. The blue light on…
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1
Feb
Untitled The body is not an apology. Let it not be forget-me-not fixed to mattress when night threatens to leave the room empty as the belly of a crow. The body is not an apology. Present it not as disassembled rifle when he has yet to prove himself more than common intruder. The body…
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Jan
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Jan
I have been reading different research from different areas about motherhood and it is interested that there is a huge emphasis on career v’s motherhood and many of researchers and writers talking about ‘opting out of career in favour of motherhood’ or ‘opting out of mother hood to return to their career’. They ask women…
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21
Jan
This Weight I feel the weight of this love this thing that we are doing to each other as it pins me against my desire to charge from the gate, dusk flying. I feel the gravity of my own mortal heart as it pumps blood to all the organs that ache, the rhythm of it…
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