Cuttin’, circles, and jams
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Recovering From Burn Out: My Story- Part 3
part 3 COVID. I had covid. After avoiding it for years, I had covid. It was not long before I was meant to be traveling across the world, to teach a dance I wasn’t sure I feel ready to do. It felt like I really had to confront if I really WANTED lindy hop this
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Recovering From Burn Out: My Story – Part 2
Part 2 “Do you want to teach at Gothenburg Queer Lindy festival?” I groaned. lindy hop??? A swirl of emotions rising in me, old wounds that never healed ached once again. The newest ones still stung. I was considering quitting dance altogether, because I was burnt out. Tired of the fighting, the games, the feeling
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Recovering From Burn Out: My Story
*The flare up of my chronic insomnia is telling…. That there is something wrong. I take my strongest sleep medication combination and stare at the ceiling as the seconds tick by. It should be working and it’s not. I should be out cold. Instead I am tossing and turning in this overheated bed, irritated. My
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The nod.
What am I missing? Why would this be ubiquitous at home and non existent here? Then it dawned on me… the transatlantic slave trade.
It’s hard to share a truth you haven’t faced yourself yet
It’s hard to share a truth you haven’t faced yourself yet. I seem to have stumbled my way into yet another sloughing off what is not working to reveal raw and unknown aspects underneath. My relationship to dance is in a state of disrepair due to a variety of reasons, some that come from the
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A new future for the Blues Dance Scene
Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of work for the Lindy Hop community. I’ve dove deep into the history of the dance, and the scene and considering what could be improved moving forward. Now I’m turning to look at the blues community. I know the blues scene has taken a long time to return to
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Why Does Everything Have To Be About Race?
It’s middle school. It was long past my first year in a PWI and it was time for a dance. At the time, I refused to dance, so I walked around with friends. I was in the hall when I was startled by my white friends getting excited and flooding toward the gym. Leaving the
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Intersectionality Is More Important Than Ever
This piece is going to be a bit off the cuff for Obsidian Tea. Remarking on an observation of a trend I think as a culture we need to look at and be careful of: Fetishization and social commodification of oppression and adversity. That’s the fancy way of saying there is a lot of social
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