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Feb 8, 2021

Come Sit With Me

If you find me huddled in a pit, cold and scared and sad Reach out your arm to lift me up, stretch out for me your hand Don’t look down on me, don’t judge my pain, don’t tell me it’s alright Don’t turn around and walk away, don’t leave me in…

Depression

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Come Sit With Me
Come Sit With Me
Depression

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Feb 8, 2021

Dancing the Twelve Step because there is no Two Step

I’m in a 12-step program having never used alcohol or drugs. I’m in a 12-step program having never been a sex or porn addict. I’m in a 12-step program having always believed in a higher power and in the idea that I am not in control of outcomes. I am…

12 Step Program

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Dancing the Twelve Step because there is no Two Step
Dancing the Twelve Step because there is no Two Step
12 Step Program

3 min read


Feb 5, 2021

I Don’t Know How to Be a Man

“I don’t mean to speak for anyone else, but I’ve been a man for 34 years now and I think I know a bit about how men think.” “I’ve been a man for 34 years.” I sat with those words that were just a few seconds in a conversation that…

Men

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I Don’t Know How to Be a Man
I Don’t Know How to Be a Man
Men

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Feb 3, 2021

I Am a White Woman

To be humane, to be anti-racist, to see people as our equals is to know that if we shed our skins, there is no easy way to tell us apart without a degree in forensic anthropology. Shed of our skins, our shared nature comes through. I’ve written before about the…

Mental Health

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I Am a White Woman
I Am a White Woman
Mental Health

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Feb 1, 2021

What They Said About Me Was True

I was mocked relentlessly for being gay while growing up, even though I wasn’t out. I was a very naive child so I didn’t even know I was gay. until other people started calling me “homo” and “fag” and I tried to figure out what those words meant. Then I…

Gay

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What They Said About Me Was True
What They Said About Me Was True
Gay

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Jan 30, 2021

Dispatch from the Tunnel (21.01.30)

My contribution today to my healing and to our shared experience is to write even though my chest feels heavy and my mind feels uncertain and I don’t know exactly what I want to say and I don’t want to be writing at all because it feels stupid and repetitive…

Mental Health

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Dispatch from the Tunnel (21.01.30)
Dispatch from the Tunnel (21.01.30)
Mental Health

5 min read


Jan 29, 2021

You Can (In)Validate Me

“Only you can validate yourself,” says the group therapist to a member of the support group who has just shared that he feels unworthy. She looks at him and asks insistently: “Can you say: ‘I am worthy’, ‘I am enough’?” He responds that he cannot right now. …

Mental Health Treatment

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You Can (In)Validate Me
You Can (In)Validate Me
Mental Health Treatment

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Jan 27, 2021

It’s All In Your Head, Except It’s Not

I’m sitting in a circle of white faces. I hate saying that because race shouldn’t matter, but it does, so I have to say it. The only other ethnic minority in the group is the therapist, who is a woman of Chinese descent. We’re discussing the training she went to…

Racism

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It’s All In Your Head, Except It’s Not
It’s All In Your Head, Except It’s Not
Racism

6 min read


Jan 8, 2021

The Paradox of Our Lonely World

I can’t imagine I’m the world’s loneliest man, though at times I feel like I am. I’d like to believe I’m not the world’s most wholistically unattractive man, though, from my sent-messages-to-response-rate ratio of 100-to-1, I might actually be. …

Love

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The Paradox of Our Lonely World
The Paradox of Our Lonely World
Love

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