Tara Bliss
spiralcentric.bsky.social
Tara Bliss
@spiralcentric.bsky.social
Whimsical Heart-Centered Compassionate Dream working Jungian-Relational poly-neurodivergent-LGBTQ-Liberatory-Somatic type psychotherapist. Into myth, healing, ocean, trees, wholeness…cookies and horses. Fan of Audre Lorde and Toni Morrison.
AJA MONET: "I think if our leaders reflected the love that we know we need and deserve, we would have a very different way of organizing systems in society. So I look forward to a people that demands love from their leaders."
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'Florida Water' by aja monet is an ode to the power of poetry
Inspired by the cleansing water of spiritual baths, aja monet's new poetry collection "Florida Water" is an ode to the ways a poem can rinse, unravel and reveal hard truths.
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July 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
a history of oppression, but my heart and soul belong to the earth, sky, and aliveness of things older and beyond our ken.
I melted when I heard Aja Monet on NPR this week; Thank you Ms. Monet, thank you. (Buy her poetry, this is from Florida Water):
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2099-f...
Florida Water
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July 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
who dares to be different, to choose love, freedom, justice, fairness, kindness and beauty. I'm a permanent member of Tribe Weird. I wouldn't leave if I could, and I couldn't leave if I wanted to. My skin may blend in with those who have perpetuated
July 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
whole families...erased based in Anger, Greed, Misused Power & Control... twisted ideas of wrong gods, wrong genes, wrong genitals, wrong love. I solemnly swear, I aim to misbehave. I aim to love in defiance. I aim to be compassionate and refuse to hate those who hate me and everyone
July 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
frame it persuasively. Don't deceive yourself otherwise. I remain permanently scarred from images seen too soon of humans in my gene pool piling naked emaciated bodies efficiently murdered next to mass graves to be silently covered up, spat upon, and erased from acknowledgment and memory...
July 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
one another...accepting responsibility, knowing we are in this together, and if one is not well...none of us is well. Any of us can get mean when we're hurt or scared...Taking away rights is a serious business, and if you can take anyone's rights easily, then anyone can take yours if they
July 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
against defining human rights based on papers. Safety doesn't come from papers. It comes from creating connections that hold us together, creating ideas in hearts that these people are like me (because even though we're so very different, if they're people...they are), it comes from deciding we help
July 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM
for my mixed metaphors in a world of too much everywhere all at once. I will not say nothing. Millions have died from the bystander effect; when they come for one voice speaking out, they come for us all I hope the world comes for us, as we are abducted, locked away, erased for speaking
July 4, 2025 at 11:46 PM