Maru 🏳️‍⚧️✨

Tonight was incredibly grounding and a huge reminder on how important it is for us to talk about menstrual cycles, changing bodies and come together as a community in our experiences rather than hide them 🩷 my heart is full, vod to be posted soon!

A poster for the Bloody Handsome event: stories of menstruation and changing bodies, which will be 7-9pm on Friday September 26th at the East Window Gallery in Boulder, CO. Hosted by aimee Herman and Shirin Chowdhury.

IM SO EXCITED CAUSE TONIGHT I’LL BE A FEATURED READER FOR AN EVENT OUT HERE WHERE TRANS AND QUEER FOLK SHARE THEIR STORIES AND EXPERIENCES WITH MENSTRUATION AND CHANGING BODIES AND THAT IS LITERALLY MY FUCKING JAAAAMMMMN!!!! AHHHH!!!!

If you’re in Colorado & can come, please do!! Info below:

When the universe says LET GO, you better listen. Especially right now, it’s a massive shift and a lot of things are coming to light on big and internal & relational scales. Give yourself compassion, and drink water hello??

I’m really about to go off on specific white folk and there’s gonna be no apologies, I’m done man. What’s the worst that’ll happen? They don’t like me? LOL OKAY!

When he dies, we still deserve an actual revolution. I want every current politician to be very afraid of us hello? I want a world where land is returned to the Indigenous people & EVERYONE is safe and free. From the river to the sea.

I’m allowed to have seasonal interests because niches can be ableist af I’m allowed to have seasonal interests because niches can be ableist af I’m allowed to have seasonal interests because niches can be ableist af I’m allowed to have seasonal interests because niches can be ableist af

Be gentle with your loved ones.

dj x coworking stream screenshot with DJ Toastedlatte and Sheilur Co-Working. There is a tasklist, a timer, puzzle. There is the logo “Cowork.Radio”

DJ x Co-Working stream starts NOWW!!! 🪩

Be productive & listen to Citypop DJ beats by @toastedlatte.bsky.social ✨

➡️ twitch.tv/sheilur

I really need a language learning app that is free and not limited with multiple languages. I’m feeling the call to get back into Spanish, Italian etc - any suggestions?

I am a trans-nonbinary man whose life is actively being saved through birth control because I have PCOS. Restricting access causes more people to be at risk for health issues beyond their control.

This isn’t to say one is worse than another. I think though, acknowledging our dissonance of our own brutal history towards BIPOC would be more benificial to stop repeating it. Cause it keeps happening, it’s been happening, and there’s a reason they want us to look overseas for brutality instead 2/2

Is it just me who feels calling it Alligator Auschwitz takes away from our own history of Japense internment camps?

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Staying silent in the face of injustice means choosing the side of the oppressor.

Read that again. And again.

Seething at the teeth and gripping my knuckles at these posts >:(

America's Largest Mental Hospital Is a Jail At Cook County, where a third of those incarcerated suffer from psychological disorders, officials are looking for ways to treat inmates less like prisoners and more like patients.

Cook County Jail has been the largest mental health hospital in the U.S., btw. Let that sink in, and think how we can show up and do better for our community so folk with mental health issues DONT end up in jail like they already have been.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I juss wanna cuddle and have my hair played with under the night sky tbh

“We’re entering a fascist state,” babes, it’s been this way ever since folk decided to trample all over these lands and colonize it. What did you think colonizing did? Mass genocide, erasure, control. Wake up, and actually DO SOMETHING.

But also super aware there’s a lot to factor into this & I’m not sad, just remembering to live outside my head more and be grateful for our connection as it iiiisssss 🫶🏾

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My crush: I haven’t met the person I wanna marry yet

Me, in my head: oh so we haven’t been equally delusional about one another bet bet bet bet -

1/2* important reflection -v

What does vulnerability look like for the inner child and teen who was told they were looking for attention? What does it look like when people asked “wtf is wrong with you” because you were constantly breaking down? Breaking those cycles, cause we deserved better.

This week, I’m hosting The Daily Show Tuesday through Thursday.

It’s my first time hosting anything on TV. Ever.

I’ve spent years writing behind the scenes, learning from truly great and talented people. Now, for three nights, I get to sit at the desk and do it myself.

We’re not meant to be numb. You’re not meant to look away. That ache in your chest? That anger in your gut? That feeling you can’t shake that makes you feel like the world should suffer and tremble to finally wake up and put an end to this? That’s your humanity refusing to die.

Yo it’s either my new birth control (which has helped me feel more energetic so idk) or these damn retrogrades, but life suuuuccckkksss in some areas and that’s okay. I’m juss gonna cry and refocus, fuck it.

When a local Zionist says they wouldn’t feel safe with you around? Good. Fear me, I’ve come too far and I’m only getting louder & scarier, bitches.

Boulder is such a funny little community ain’t it? Maybe I should keep visiting and bringing my poems out more often 😽

A side body profile of Maru wearing pink shorts, a gray sports bra, sitting propped on their feet with a visible cat tattoo on one of his thighs. Maru has a brown complexion and a short, curvy stature.

Yoga got me loving the way my body crunches & folds so hey 🩷

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO BE IMPERFECT AND SLIP UP!!! HOLDING YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE SHOULDN’T MEAN BEATING YOURSELF UP & HOLDING THOSE MISTAKES OVER YOUR HEAD C’MON NOW!!!!!!

- I’m saying this for me, too.

I’m currently sitting somewhere between wanting to hammer away my healing journey and remembering I’m human, I’m supposed to feel these feelings.

Healing is realizing regulating myself doesnt mean I’m supposed to shut my emotions down to calm. And, because I never got a blueprint for actual peace, it’s okay be uneasy in this.

I’ve either finally met a Trader Joe’s employee who didn’t feel like they were hitting on me, or I’ve truly healed enough to accept if someone was flirting with me - they’d say it.

Best of the week.
7-11th of July.
Wonders. Heat. A Blaze.
I confess a deep love for Summer. Perhaps because it is so fleeting?
Be well, friends.