• I Must Comment on This Open Letter by Former Ex-Gay Leaders

    I am going to start by saying their letter makes my heart glad and soothes my soul. Not because I needed their or anyone’s validation to freely be who I am as a bisexual woman in a same-sex relationship, but because I always rejoice when people drop beliefs that invalidate others. Here is a snippet…

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  • Fulfilling My Purpose

    Career coach Ariane Hunter recently opened a dialogue via her newsletter about purpose and passion. Her words made me think about my relationship to the word “purpose”. I’m one of those people who has always shied away from the word “purpose”. I grew up in a religious environment that often stressed “God has a purpose…

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  • Some of these video “jokes” aren’t at all funny.

    They make fun of women who are darker than a certain shade, whose hair is curlier than a certain classification, whose bodies are larger than a certain size, and whose complexions are not Photoshop smooth. Then they make fun of women who appear that way at first, but after the makeup, weave, and body-shaping gear…

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  • And now a word from a satisfied Electricity reader…

    WOW, what a great read. I love your eerie subject and characters. Super cool story and so tight.  ~ Cynthia Joseph Electricity is a free read that is just over 12K words long. You can read it here on Bits & Bytes.

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  • I am always astounded when reason is met with stubborn narrow-mindedness.

    Today’s astonishment comes from someone who insists strict, traditional gender roles are “normal” and anything outside of that is not only disordered, but is a plot by Willie Lynch to destroy the African-American family. There are so many shades of wrong in that thinking, I don’t have any desire to unravel it. The most frightening…

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