Category: 🔥 Body, Desire & Tenderness
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I Didn’t Realize I Was Living Outside My Own Body
Pole dancing, performance, and the strange experience of learning how to feel The mirrors are everywhere. Not the soft, forgiving kind either. Bright white walls.Metal poles stretching from floor to ceiling like something between a playground and a dare. I sit cross-legged on my mat, trying not to look as uncomfortable as I feel. The…
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Seen, Not Heard: Learning Silence as Survival
How I mastered being impressive and invisible. I grew up as a performer.That sounds harmless.But for me, that sentence has layers. It started in primary school, when my older sister began dancing before I did.I remember my parents driving her to practice. Watching her on stage, in awe. Seeing her as part of a crew,…