🌓 Litha: Feast of Light and Courage to Bloom
There is something expansive at the centre of Litha. Not expansive in the sense of overwhelming intensity, but in the way the world feels fully open. Bees move through wildflowers,…
Exploring voices and stories around feminism, gender diversity, and LGBTQ+ experiences — from poetry to personal reflections and cultural insights.
🌕 Patriarchy and the Psychology of Harm
Revisiting The Lucifer Effect Through a Feminist Lens Twenty years, three months, three weeks and three days before I was born, Philip Zimbardo conducted the now infamous Stanford Prison Experiment.…
🌑 Gift from my Mother
Internalised misogyny is an old spell cast by a world that punishes women for their power and rewards them for shrinking. It shows up subtly in judgments, in rivalries, in…
🌕 Beltane: The Feast of Blooming & Belonging
As nature reaches its lush, blossoming fullness, so too does the human spirit begin to open outward. There is a noticeable shift in energy, lighter, warmer, more playful. Around Beltane,…
🌑 Breaking the cycle of generational trauma
The complex dynamics we come from shape who we become as adults. Generational trauma isn’t just about the pain we endure—it’s the weight of the past pressing down on the…
🌘 The Wall you built between Us
I heard a knock outside. My stomach twitched in that familiar way. I hesitated, touching the knob. He’s my father—or at least, the man who raised me—but he doesn’t really…
🌗 My Philosophical Fire
This is a post about the Fire of Bloom At my core, my life force is oriented toward meaning, growth, and truth seeking. I need the why behind things. I…
🌕 Food and Awareness
Modern food psychology is slowly unlearning the language of control.Where once we were taught to measure, restrict, calculate, and conquer, a quieter understanding is taking root. Food is no longer…
🌔 Safe, Creative Spaces & Narrative
As February folds itself away, we pause to gather the threads it left in our hands. We felt it was important to tie a few knots before stepping forward. Safety,…
🌑 The Blueprints of Safety
In a world that often feels unpredictable and chaotic, the need for safety has shifted from the purely physical to the deeply emotional. How can we feel steady in our…