Lately I have been doing some shopping. Online. With the BF. Who knew he is actually very good in regards to women’s fashion, though he is a bit lost with men’s. He used to work as a women’s shoes salesman and says he learned a lot there, in addition to “studying women on the street.” [...]
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Today was one of those long days where I simply felt defeated after work. By what I don’t know. But I felt like I had fought and lost. I kept reminding myself it’s not present, it’s an old feeling from my childhood back when I did wonder how I was going to survive. But no [...]
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I don’t usually read much fiction. Books on my to-read list are similar to the one I mentioned in my last post: The Feminist Promise, Racism in the Lives of Women, Women and Male Violence, and Who Cooked the Last Supper? The last fiction book I recall reading may have been Gone With the Wind. [...]
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There is a wonderful book called The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker. They included the book as part of the self-defense class that I mentioned in the last post. De Becker works as a professional bodyguard: “Gavin de Becker & Associates protects people who are at risk, including eight of the ten Americans [...]
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I took an amazing women’s self-defense class last year. Unlike many self-defense classes that teach martial arts, this was a group that taught women how to defend ourselves based on research about how women specifically are attacked. Usually in martial arts, sparring or fighting practice is done face to face with your bodies facing each [...]
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