Disability isn’t pretty. Good thing beauty isn’t all that matters. Part of my decolonizing journey is unlearning sexism and the internalized patriarchal gender roles imposed on me since birth. As someone assigned female at birth, I was encouraged and praised when prioritizing my appearance and how I showed up in the world according to theContinue reading “Messy, but showing up!”
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Recent Thought Trains
Part of my black or white, all or nothing, rigid thinking includes me vacillating between thinking that I have super awesome unique talents, skills, traits, and attributes that are worthwhile, positive, useful, helpful, and beneficial and feeling that my strong personality, preferences, opinions, and ways of expressing myself are too difficult for people to find worth tolerating or putting up with.
Jax Bayne 