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It had been a long time since a dude driving a sports car stared at me until I felt skeezed out…

July 4, 2022 by sulya

Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m pushing 50 these days so this particular branch of toxic masculinity doesn’t reach for me the way it did when I was young. Back then, it felt entitled to lean out car windows and …

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What’s With All the Rocketmen Who Don’t Want Capes?

October 29, 2021 by sulya

Reading Time: 4 minutes The poetry of Original Captain Kirk actually in space notwithstanding, here’s what I don’t understand: All the silly little greed-monsters are doing “Space-Race II” like anyone but them really gives a damn and like a …

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You Should Know I Hate This Painting

August 29, 2021June 6, 2021 by sulya

Reading Time: 4 minutes And, I know. Hate is a strong word. But I’m 99.9999% certain I hate it. I showed the featured photo above to a friend of mine the other day and her exact words were, “Well, …

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some good, old fashioned, unhinged and desperate ranting…

May 26, 2021January 17, 2021 by sulya

Reading Time: 4 minutes So. White Supremacists once again threaten all manner of kindness and decency in ways that follow the road maps left by their consummately colonial, entitled, dumbf—k evil roots and the only ray of flip-the-script light …

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On the Habit of Finding Better Words Part 3

May 21, 2021September 12, 2020 by sulya

Reading Time: 5 minutes (continued from On the Habit of Finding Better Words Part 2) I cannot tell you how many amazing, articulate, expressive people I know who are still recovering from chronic self-doubt born of their inability communicate …

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On the Habit of Finding Better Words Part 2

May 21, 2021September 12, 2020 by sulya

Reading Time: 5 minutes (continued from On the Habit of Finding Better Words Part 1) How many times have I spent literally hours, days, months, years of my life trying to find a way to express myself clearly to someone …

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On the Habit of Finding Better Words Part 1

May 21, 2021September 12, 2020 by sulya

Reading Time: 5 minutes As a toddler and young child, according to my mother and sister, I used to say “ayana” when I wanted someone to lie down with me. No one has any idea where I got the …

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The Weirdness that Tried to Eat All the Plots

May 21, 2021April 1, 2020 by sulya

Reading Time: 5 minutes So, lately, every time I tuck into one of my fiction projects, I have an overwhelming urge to make all the characters go into self-isolation due to a global pandemic. From their different worlds and …

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Clearing the Life Congestion

May 21, 2021October 26, 2019 by sulya

Reading Time: 9 minutes I woke this morning having barely slept because I have a cold. Again. I never get sniffly colds. My body and I have a deal. It flattens me like carefully steam-rolled asphalt once every 3-5 …

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Guilty Placeholder Feels and the Art of Self-Neglect

May 21, 2021October 11, 2019 by sulya

Reading Time: 8 minutes So, I’m starting to think that a lot of the most common forms and expressions of “guilt” are, in Western, Eurocentric culture, socially validated placeholders for our more truthful emotions. Is it, perhaps, a bold …

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