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Reprising Curious Gifts

To my StraightWhiteMale right-wing left-brain monoculturally dominating brothers, and your antifeminist glamorous amorous womanly allies, You have not yet heard me, if you only hear my resistance, sharing my non-culpable experience with non-choice of gender attraction and gender identity. It's not only that my ***** gender attractions are not my fault, because not my choice; but also my gender identity and sensory-neural attachments, as also true of yours, are my most sacredly intimate gift. CoArising identity/individuation and CoGravitating attraction, like awareness and contrast and ego/eco-consciousness, are not just heavy social responsibilities, but also enlightened and empowering opportunities. We're not legitimately known by who or what we hate and hurt; But we can be felt and known and even divinely redeemed by who and what we love and heal. We may have no more choice about who and what and when and where and why and how we love, than choice to respond with awe and wonder, or boredom and disdain, to Earth's natural enspiriting Beauty Of dawn and dusk, spring and autumn, ocean and mountain, before and after, inside felt and outside recognized, spiritual and natural restorative reconnections Which feel both Healthy and True, of the deepest and highest and yet safest resilient and resonantly robust multicolored wealth of curiously unchosen unfaulted gifting grace, healthy healing pace absence of monotheistic overpowering disgrace.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2021




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