A New Start

A New Start I got a new start this year for me. No more hiding in the shadows because I’m afraid who going to judge me. I got a new start who loves me for me. We need to take our time because we’re in love and old wounds got…

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Moonlight

Moonlight Looking at the stars and moon wishing I was with her. My heart beats to the thought of being with her. Sun rise, sun set, to moonlight. Just me and you. Expressing each other deepest thoughts, and deepest secrets just chilling under the moonlight. By Rachel Davis January 11,…

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Accommodations 

I had the experience this last summer of denying myself the gift of Joy so that others would be more ‘comfortable’ in their life circumstance. It was like shutting down my own light, so others wouldn’t see their own fear. Consequently, I felt consumed by fear that instinctively I knew…

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6 Things to Navigate While Coming Out to Yourself as a Survivor of Sexual Violence

Originally published on Everyday Feminism Magazine on January 7, 2015 By Rachel Kuo and re-published here with their permission.   When I finally tell someone about my sexual assault experience, I feel the need to qualify it with “the story.” Rather than simply claiming my status as a survivor, I…

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