maybe it’s art or writing or music… or a business or a career you dream of having, or a wild adventure you wanna take… just any wish you might have… if your heart aches for something or your soul wants to chase something…
your friends should literally be your biggest, loudest, truest fans of your dreams, always
– butterflies rising
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it’s Sexual Assault Awareness Month…
and it crashes into us with the news of millions of
views of some type of “online rape academy,”
and at first, we feel rage. but then… we feel
not so surprised at all.
and it’s because we’ve already known too many
versions of this… and it feels common… and what
actually feels foreign is to even consider a world where
SA is just terrible and rare. and so i try to imagine it…
like what if we could have that world?
but then i feel more rage… because i don’t want to
just imagine it, i want it to be real. i want to live
in a world where the horrible things that we’ve
accepted as common could only
ever be terrible and rare.
– butterflies rising
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you know why the moon mission stuff mattered so much? we’ve been sharing a collective broken heart for what feels like forever, but with the moon stuff, we got to share a dream… and it just feels really, really good to dream.
– butterflies rising
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my friends & i have always felt sad about how, as girls,
it’s not safe for us to take late-night walks…
when all we wanna do is go look at the moon.
but a few nights ago, a woman left the earth, on her way to be
the first woman to go to the moon, in a rocket named after a goddess…
and the moon was pink that night…
and it felt like being told to keep reaching for a better world…
one where we’re so free to take walks under the moon
that we feel like we could touch it.
– butterflies rising
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some ways i’m made of magic…
i’m passionate & creative… i’m a dancer &
a writer, and i spill out all my feelings into
both of those things.
i’m adventurous & spontaneous…
maybe sometimes a little bit reckless…
but i can also be really brave, and i also
dream really big.
i love being a good friend… i’m supportive
& loyal & can hold space for any version of
them. and i’m silly & fun & i’m up for
anything. and i love my friends sooo much
and so deeply… like soulmates.
…and i think all of those things make
me kind of magical
– butterflies rising
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the way we’ve just been conditioned our whole lives as girls & women to just accept SA as an almost inevitable thing we’ll experience… it’s overwhelming to even see any consequences… like it feels foreign to even consider a world where SA is just terrible and rare… but imagine, what if we could have that world
– butterflies rising
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just because they haven’t been
accountable for what they did to you…
it doesn’t mean the energy of what
happened is yours to carry
– butterflies rising
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if there is anything i want to be…
i want to be the most passionate version
of myself… to feel and feel… and follow what i feel,
and inhale love and be love, and exhale any fear…
and this version of me won’t apologize
for having a heart on fire
– butterflies rising
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i don’t know if our nervous systems are
made for social media… to have so much noise
over our own inner voice trying to influence
who and how we should be…
but i’m learning to say things like…
“who and how i want to be can’t be shaken
by what’s outside of me. i need to like me…
and that’s what i’m going to
let matter to me.”
– butterflies rising
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i miss what it
feels like to believe in sunrises.
to wake up feeling like… today will be good,
beautiful things will happen,
and nothing will hurt.
but the world just keeps breaking
my heart again and again
and again.
– butterflies rising
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whenever i see someone talking about how small & controllable women need to be if they want to be loved, it just makes me want to write more poetry about how bright we get to be and be loved.
– butterflies rising
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