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“my rage intensifies because i am not a victim, it burns in my psyche with an intensity that creates clarity. it is a constructive healing rage… [it is] a way for us to learn to see clearly.” – bell hooks

Banning Drag Queens, Overturning of Roe… What’s Next?

If you cannot bring yourself to find empathy for those who have been impacted by recent legislative moves and decisions, I hope you can at least find it in yourself to recognize that everyone involved is a human being the same as you.

Baylor Should Invite Everyone to the Table, Including the LGBTQIA+ Community

Baylor has an opportunity to demonstrate that Christianity is not fearful, that it can be open to rigorous academic discussion around complex social issues with people of countless backgrounds and invite people to have discourse. The best way to demonstrate Christianity is to be open to academic dialogue. As Jesus invited anyone and everyone to his table, Baylor should as well. These conversations do not always have to surround our differences; they can be about anything and everything to find commonalities and build connections with people.

If You Don’t Understand Why I Participated in the Black Lives Matter Protests

Yesterday on May 31, 2020 I joined hundreds of others in protesting the long history of racial injustice and police brutality that has led to the murder of an alarmingly disproportionate number of black men, women, and trans persons in the United States. Waco itself has a hostile and violently racist past rifled with lynching’sContinue reading “If You Don’t Understand Why I Participated in the Black Lives Matter Protests”

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We are #HoustonStrong

Hawaii: My Happiest Place

They make me feel like a goddess, loved unconditionally beyond comprehension, and so freaking happy whenever I am with them.

Makeup as an Art Form

Makeup has definitely been given a bad reputation. Guys calling it deceitful and lying, saying that’s why they don’t trust girls, even give nicknames like cakeface and clown girl. Of course there can be some bad makeup mess ups like when you don’t blend it down your neck or having sperm eyebrows. But all inContinue reading “Makeup as an Art Form”

Thirteen Things I’ve Learned

13 things I learned during 13 years of school (at John Cooper especially): Do, what you want to do, even if you are afraid that you’ll fail to do it. Or if you are afraid of what other people might say. Believe me, nothing will matter after some time except the fact that despite allContinue reading “Thirteen Things I’ve Learned”