The Oppressor in Me

The most challenging experience I have had to date is facing, knowing and meeting the oppressor and victimizer in me. Meeting this archetype, expressing consciously and unconsciously through me, with curiosity, facing the judgements and attachments I observe arising in me when engaging with her or being identified with her, feeling the emotional responses of shame, guilt, anger, frustration, sadness and grief, contemplating the artificial sense of power, safety...

HOW TO SILENCE A WOMAN: RETRIEVING HER VOICE

When someone says, “We’re saying the same thing.”Say, “We are not saying the same thing.” When someone says, “Don’t question, just have faith”Say, “I am questioning vato, and I have supreme faith in what I think.” When someone says, “Don’t defy my authority.”Say, “There is a higher authority that I follow.” When someone says, “Your ideas are seductive.”Say, “No, my ideas are not seductive, they are substantial.” When someone...

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