Not pretty, thank you.

Photo credit: Roger Arruda Compliments! Do you enjoy receiving them? How do you feel when people say you are pretty/cute/handsome/stunning? What does that kind of compliment mean to you? I never knew how to react to compliments growing up. I always felt undeserving and shy after receiving them. My inner-world mantra became "This is not … Continue reading Not pretty, thank you. →

Embrace the rainbow

Protest! Pride! Parade! sticker on my t-shirt

I have no desire to be invisible anymore because I am healing now. I want this body to roar for attention. Androgyny needs to be seen and asserted, not corrected. I want to look the way I look, and pity is not an option. I am lucky to be bald. It reminds me of all the things I am and have been, and the new things I want to be, outside of that perimeter.