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Elizabeth Silleck La Rue
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Turning Hammocks Into Nooses: When White US Tourists Bring Their Racism to Mexico

November 12, 2022 Trigger warning: this post contains photos that may be triggering due to association with racist violence against Black people. Part 1: The Occupation We stretched our bellies, hips, quads, lower backs, and ribcages facing forward in the slack, worn hammocks and watched as impossibly white foam bubbled over, time and again…

Racism

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Turning Hammocks Into Nooses: When White US Tourists Bring Their Racism to Mexico
Turning Hammocks Into Nooses: When White US Tourists Bring Their Racism to Mexico
Racism

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How Racists Ruined Our Anniversary

Going Outdoors While Interracial — It was one of those gloriously bright, extremely windy and slightly brisk days that feels like Fall up north, and feels rare and magical in Southwest Florida. As we hustled to the boardwalk leading to the beach, long strands of my curly hair got stuck in my lip gloss, which…

Racism

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How Racists Ruined Our Anniversary
How Racists Ruined Our Anniversary
Racism

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6 days ago

Why I Tell People I’m a White Woman

Identity in the context of projected racial ambiguity. — Holding conflicting ideas in our heads, recognizing contradictions inherent in taking certain positions or landing on particular perspectives, is something most of us aren’t used to doing. Corny pun notwithstanding, Western-educated people have been taught to think in terms of “black and white.” Relatedly, the construction of “race,” designed to…

Racism

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Why I Tell People I’m a White Woman
Why I Tell People I’m a White Woman
Racism

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May 15

The Bulldozer That Broke My Heart

I don’t remember the last time I cried like that. A mournful howl that ran from throat to knees and caved my chest in. I can still remember the smell. Sharp, bright, herbal. The streaming lifeblood of pines, palms, oaks, sawgrass, pungent arboreal panic and pain. The cracking and popping…

Nature

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The Bulldozer That Broke My Heart
The Bulldozer That Broke My Heart
Nature

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Cultured

·Apr 23

It’s Time to Mobilize Resources for People Fleeing the US

In Spirit, At Least, Black and LGBTQ People in the US Could Be Considered Refugees “I’m moving to Canada,” joked white straight cisgendered liberals when it was reported in 2016 that Trump was taking the White House. A tongue-in-cheek, vague fantasy that most didn’t intend to really follow through on…

Racism

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It’s Time to Mobilize Resources for People Fleeing the US
It’s Time to Mobilize Resources for People Fleeing the US
Racism

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ILLUMINATION’S MIRROR

·Apr 6

We’re Diluting the Power of Language When We Call Everything “Violence”

!!TRIGGER WARNING: Explicit discussion of physical and sexual violence!! Saying mean things is not “violence.” There, I said it. And though the wrath of those who toss around this potent word to describe everything from social media slights to offensive opinions may be forthcoming once I publish this, that wrath and criticism won’t be “violence” either. I understand that the meaning of words can change…

Language

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We’re Diluting the Power of Language When We Call Everything “Violence”
We’re Diluting the Power of Language When We Call Everything “Violence”
Language

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Cultured

·Mar 25

Stop Lying: You’re Not at the School Board Meeting To “Protect” Your Children

You’re there to oppress their peers. — Opponents of education (a.k.a. the truth) would like to make you believe they’re trying to protect their children. That they show up to school board meetings in angry droves of bleached hair and US flag t-shirts out of “concern.” The self-proclaimed “anti-woke” parent mob would like you to believe their…

Racism

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Stop Lying: You’re Not at the School Board Meeting To “Protect” Your Children
Stop Lying: You’re Not at the School Board Meeting To “Protect” Your Children
Racism

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Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs

·Mar 10

I Am A Shameless Tree-Hugging, Fish-Obsessed, Nature-Lover. Here’s Why.

March 10, 2023 Nature is what’s always been there for me. As a lonely child, when the shouting and occasional crash of a thrown object tore into my ears, echoing, I went outside. Found space in the smooth, cool dirt beneath the enormous tree–I wish I could say with certainty…

Mental Health

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I Am A Shameless Tree-Hugging, Fish-Obsessed, Nature-Lover. Here’s Why.
I Am A Shameless Tree-Hugging, Fish-Obsessed, Nature-Lover. Here’s Why.
Mental Health

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ILLUMINATION

·Feb 16

Almost Getting Abducted from Burger King Taught Me Self-Doubt is Dangerous

Learning to trust your gut and speak up — I was wearing tight zebra-print pants. I recall them vividly; they were soft with short faux fur and flared legs. Late 1995, it had to have been, because I was on my way back from visiting someone in the county jail. I broke up with him in the mid-90s, so…

Womens Rights

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Almost Getting Abducted from Burger King Taught Me Self-Doubt is Dangerous
Almost Getting Abducted from Burger King Taught Me Self-Doubt is Dangerous
Womens Rights

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Jan 12

A Note to the Small-Minded and Arrogant Internet Lurkers Who Swear They Know My Life

January 12, 2023 It takes a mind-blowing abundance of ignorance and arrogance to tell a stranger that what happened to them, didn’t. I’ve been running into this lately on the interwebs. I state a fact about my life experience — something that directly happened to me — and some narrow-minded…

Gaslighting

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A Note to the Small-Minded and Arrogant Internet Lurkers Who Swear They Know My Life
A Note to the Small-Minded and Arrogant Internet Lurkers Who Swear They Know My Life
Gaslighting

2 min read

Elizabeth Silleck La Rue

Elizabeth Silleck La Rue

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Justice-seeking ocean-loving writer and consultant. https://medium.com/@SilleckConsultingServicesLLC/membership

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