Kay Bolden , I love this piece so much!!

… too easy to distance myself from my words. To sink into sales mode or trope mode or campaign mode. When I write by hand, I lead with my body, not my brain. As any massage therapist can tell you, our bodies are far wiser than we realize. With a pen, I feel the weight of every word. I can’t backspace. I can’t hit delete. I can only keep …

Reclaiming My Writer’s Voice

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Kay Bolden

Darcy Reeder

1 min readJan 17, 2019

Kay Bolden , I love this piece so much!!

In journalism school, I felt my voice disappearing as I replaced it with other voices. I love the me from my journals more than all the other me’s I’m able to be.

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Empathy for the win! Published in Gen, Human Parts, Heated, Tenderly —Feminism, Sexuality, Veganism, Anti-Racism, Parenting. She/They

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