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Family Ties

Live your truth
Break the cycle of abuse
Breathe
Wink and sip on that metaphorical tea when you hear passive aggressive comments
And give it right back to them
Breathe
Know who loves you
Know what love is
Teach yourself what love is
Because it’s never too late to learn about the foreign concept of love
Follow the love
Find your tribe
Love your tribe
Let your tribe love you back


The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb

#quartervida

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Wobbly Trees

Done with wobbly tree yoga poses in front of scenic views by marketing girls who claim they want to change the world.

Done with the blind leading the blind.

Done with the words fierce, boss and sister being used by women who although they believe in female equality with our male oppressors don’t fully understand what sisterhood is. By women who rather than wanting equality among all women decide to make themselves “boss bitches”. Women who use the word sister to take credit for other females’ knowledge and skill without permission.

Done with the world of all tell and no show. Where those self-appointed “leaders” of our feminism use well-placed images to tell a story they are unable to tell with their actions. Who spend their lives making the cage society gives us look pretty then use that as leverage against other women with the misuse of the term feminism. When in reality all they want is power. Who teach young girls that rather than spending their time getting out of the cage, they should live in it and make it pretty. It is freedom in the form of acceptance and surrender.

Done with women using our personal failures and insecurities to appear humble. Rather than just wanting to share out of love, growth and bonding. Like announcing to the world every time you give a dollar to a homeless person.

Done with the word humble being used by those who are in no way, shape or form humble in life or even in the moment they choose to use the word itself.

Done with art and charity events whose sole purpose is self-promotion.

Done with the word creativity being used as an act of rebellion. Creativity is in all of us, it is universal. The only time creativity is an act of rebellion is when you open eyes and turn bodies that were once facing walls of ignorance. What you did over the weekend although expressed creatively is not an act of rebellion. It is an act of self-indulgence.

Done with the self-absorbed who market their sickness as determination and motivation. Always on the defensive, always imposing, always thinking they are superior, always using sisterhood as a tool for getting what they want, always using the words “success” and “hard-working” to cover up the cracks, always arrogant, always networking, always talking about the self, and always making it about the self. Crossing boundaries when they claim to be breaking boarders.

Done with our value and worth being placed on how good we are at marketing. When all that we do is for an image, the image of ourselves begins to deteriorate. Who are you when no one is watching?

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Jammie Jam


Marko and I are in our jammies and Kimono singing my single Younger in support of Bedstock. A one-of-a-kind music festival, where artists play from their bed for sick kids stuck in theirs. It helps fund and raise awareness for Mymusicrx, an organization that delivers the healing power of music to kids and teens with serious illnesses.

On a side note, I have been receiving a lot of emails asking me when I will be posting regularly again. I am currently focusing on Music and other projects, but will be back in the beginning of 2017 with great content!

Younger ( Bedstock Version)
#quartervida

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For Us, For Them

My parents and long time boyfriends parents both came from dictatorships. They came to this country for a better life. When you are shaking in your sleep on the verge of tears and hear Trump supporters outside of your walls celebrating, fear feels like something you have to make friends with. I don’t want to become my parents who lived in so much fear that even once they moved to the U.S it was hard to talk about the past. Worried that someone might be listening and make them disappear. Straightening their hair to cover up their blackness in hopes of not being noticed. I do not want to and refuse to live my life that way. I will not be living in fear although it seems that now more than ever I will be living WITH it.

America was always the girl who passively bullied us in school. Made us feel like we weren’t good enough and taunted us for the things we could never control, but would always say it was a joke or cover it up with banter. Now she is armed and it is obvious that she never did like us. The opportunity here is that now we get to fight back. No more hiding or thinking we are delusional for feeling hurt by her. We KNOW she hates us and how she is trying to ruin our lives. Our next step is to fight the bully. Because they never wanted guns for protection.

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This Thanksgiving please take the time out if you are unable to go there yourself to donate to The Standing Rock Sioux so that they may fight The Dakota Access Pipeline. Water is life. Now more than ever we have a chance to stop history from repeating itself in more ways than one. Here’s how you can help!

Sign the petition:

You can do that here and here.

Send Supplies:

The Sacred Stone camp has a fairly comprehensive website that includes current needs. Checks, cash or supplies can be sent via mail to: Sacred Stone Camp, P.O. Box 1011, Fort Yates, ND 58538, or 202 Main St., Fort Yates, ND 58538. There’s an Amazon wish list here.

Donate:

Sacred Stone Camp GoFundMe

Sacred Stone Legal Defense Fund

Sacred Stone Camp Supply List

I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving! Don’t let the irony of this be missed as in this universe when we don’t pay attention to history it always has a chance of repeating itself. Everything happens for a reason, there are no coincidences. Because at the end of it all we are all a series of multiplying cells. Each generation is an experiment in the advancement of humanity. How much are we willing to help each other move forward so that we all move forward as a species? Don’t let your reason on this earth be put to waste. Move forward, we already know what happened in the past and it isn’t pretty.