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I am one with my queerness and my queerness is with me

Posted on June 1, 2023 by Nix Kelley
a photo of many lit candles in the dark

I love you, my siblings. My family. My dearest friends.

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on Chronic Illness/on Mental Health/on Queerness/the Pandemic

fragments of self

Posted on May 30, 2023 by Nix Kelley
a three dimensional web of green rope against a clay colored background

The self that exists in meatspace and on the internet has become fragmented in a way that deeply upsets me.

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on being Exvangelical/on Chosen Family/on Deathwork & Griefwork/on Generational Trauma/on Mental Health/on Praxis/the Work

great, this again.

Posted on May 16, 2023 by Nix Kelley
a POV looking downward at two feet on a sidewalk. the pavement is painted on the right with yellow arrows pointing downward, and scratched into the pavement above the feet is the phrase 'i tried'

Do you ever believe something about yourself so hard that even proof doesn’t change your mind?

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on Chosen Family/on Decolonizing/on Harm & Reciprocity/on Hope/on Praxis

should we go back to where we started?

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Nix Kelley
a rocket flies across the evening sky over an ocean, upward from left to right

We need to learn how to put down the weapons of our thoughts and voices that lead us to separate ourselves from one another.

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on Hope/on Praxis/Poems/the Cycle of the Seasons/the Work

beltane

Posted on May 1, 2023 by Nix Kelley
an antlered deer in shadowed woods

Blessings of growth and blessings of earth for you today.

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on Chosen Family/on Chronic Illness/on Deathwork & Griefwork/on Decolonizing/on Harm & Reciprocity/on Mental Health/on Queerness/the Pandemic

I write what hurts my feelings

Posted on April 25, 2023 by Nix Kelley
three round hay bales in a foggy field

The pain leads me to what is true.

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Nix Kelley
Nix Kelley
Genderqueer non-binary trans. They/them/theirs. Death doula, clergy-in-training, writing about queer identity, death, hope, praxis, & song lyrics.
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I READ BANNED BOOKS

GENDERQUEER: a memoir (deluxe edition) by Maia Kobabe, read in one day in April 2023

We Do This Til We Free Us (audiobook) by Mariame Kaba, finished in May 2023

Be Gay, Do Comics, an anthology of queer comics, finished in June 2023

This Is How You Lose the Time War (audiobook), by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, finished in one day in July 2023


We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1
remember who you are

The future cannot blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past. The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.

Susan Cooper, Silver on the Tree
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