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No Kings, Just Goddesses of Democracy + Song
Foreshadowing? Did I write this letter for my young friend from China all those years ago? Or did I write it for the young people living in America…
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Demian Elaine' Yumei
The Last Farewell
Even Tears Threaten Tyrants; essay and song in honor of the Tiananmen Mothers, and all who lost loved ones in the Tiananmen Square Massacre of June 4…
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When Mother's Day Hurts
My mother’s heart was broken, shattered at a very young age. And even more, her spirit. This, understandably, deeply impacted all her children.
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Demian Elaine' Yumei
Damn, You Really Were Abused
When your vulnerabilities lead to usury instead of empathy.
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Demian Elaine' Yumei
Declaration
A poem about reciprocity
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Your Relationship with Healing and Power
Many of us have an ambivalent relationship with power and only vague notions of what our personal healing would look like.
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Demian Elaine' Yumei
Futility (Not Ours)
A Poem about the damage and futility of erasure.
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Demian Elaine' Yumei
Liars Can Make You Believe Truth Doesn’t Matter
Holding on to factual reality when people around you have no regard for it.
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Oops, I Forgot to Get A Boyfriend!
I'm not looking and friends are not consolation prizes.
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A Bolt of Cloth
The man who held the scissors to the bolt of cloth created not me but a lie. I was never a bolt of cloth. And neither were you.
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Not This Time, Dad
When Gaslighting and Psychological Warfare Is Personal
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The Desire to Erase You
The power to resist and exist in America, a response to the efforts to erase marginal groups from American history and whitewash the national narrative.
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