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Dreadlocks – One Year Later
A couple weeks ago, one of my yoga students was asking me about my hair… why I did it, how long I’d had them, etc. She laughed at how often I kept using the word, “journey”. But I absolutely couldn’t … Continue reading
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Why We Need To Keep Talking About Leelah Alcorn
I’ll be 41 in 2 days. Even at 41, it still stings when I get disapproval from my parents. At this point, it’s stupid little things: they don’t like my nose ring, or that I gauged my ears. They stopped … Continue reading
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Piercings and Perceptions (Those people are SCARY)
A few weeks ago, Tegan (almost six at the time of this writing) got her ears pierced. She’d been toying with the idea for at least a year, but was nervous because she knew it would hurt. She talked about … Continue reading
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Friends, The Internet, and Finding My Soul Sisters
The first person I ever knew who met someone on the internet was my sister. It was the early 90’s, back when the internet was all new and scary, and actually meeting someone from the internet was akin to making … Continue reading
Books and Covers
“Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Such an old, tired cliche, and one that has very nearly lost all meaning. Sure, we pull it out from time to time, and make ourselves feel like it is a new … Continue reading
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Dreads at 3 Months: Redefining Beauty
My dreads are three months old. Which means for ninety something days now, I’ve been carrying around these ropy, tangly, matted knots, instead of the long, thick wavy hair that partially defined me for all of my previous 38 years. … Continue reading
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Dreadlocks: How, When, and WHY
As most of you know, a few days after my 38th birthday, I decided that I was going to fulfill a very long-held wish and dread my hair. A faithful friend came over and spent six hours carefully sectioning, backcombing, … Continue reading
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