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No One Was Safe

2022-03-182022-03-21 Miss Poison Salem Witch Trials, Women Alexander McQueen, Ancestry, Family Trees, Honesty, No One Was Safe, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Salem Witch Trials, Sarah How

There are many correlations between 1692 and 2022, in the sense that women are still treated similarly. Constantly being told we're crazy, dramatic, or worse. You might not get hung or burned at the stake, but social media is always present to chew you up and spit you back out into nothingness. Keep that in … Continue reading No One Was Safe

Run or Scatter?

2021-02-10 Miss Poison Images/Photos/Quotes, Writing Ancestry, Disgusting Behavior, Honesty, Life, Pieces Of Me, Poison In Lethal Doses, Privilege, Stephanie Bennett-Henry, Writing

Life experience has taught me, time and again, that everyone leaves eventually. I had to learn, really young, to be my own best friend and rely, as much as possible, on myself and no one else. I was thirty years old, long before ever turning thirty. It was a blessing and a curse. Early maturity … Continue reading Run or Scatter?

Coming Out Of The Ancestral “Closet”

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Coming Out of The Ancestral “Closet” I find it more than a little appalling that in 2014, I am still being asked “What are you?” Not “What religion are you?” or your average, inappropriate social questions, which, by my standards, are still rude. No, it’s always been “What ARE you?”, with such profound emphasis, as if … Continue reading Coming Out Of The Ancestral “Closet”