This 6th of July, let us raise a glass to toast Ms. Frida Kahlo, the queen of the self-portrait, the queen of self-reflection, and the queen of self-expression. May her memory be one that cultivates feelings of empowerment and free expression of self, forever more.
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Dementia and Alzheimer’s are devastating. I ask that you do just one thing during Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month and well, every month thereafter…
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Isn’t it high time that we divest from the narrative that money and a sense of dominance should allow some the opportunity to take land and livelihood from other humans, without a care about where they will go and how they will live?
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What does her attractiveness, or lack thereof, have anything to do with her believability as a victim? We have assigned arbitrary and harmful characteristics to the victims of abuse. They must be weak, but also, strong. They must be attractive, but not too attractive. They must be quiet, but also, outspoken. It’s time to stop this, today.
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Might you imagine how I felt when I learned of the Smithtown Library Board of Trustees ordering the removal of all “Pride displays, in addition to…books of the same subject” from the Children’s Room? Devastated. Gutted. Horrified. How could they take one of my favorite places, a place of education and warmth and love and escape, and make it a place of hatred and exclusion?
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