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Elizabeth Silleck La Rue
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Published in Momentum

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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

17 min read


Published in Momentum

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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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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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Published in 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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Published in ILLUMINATION

·Feb 16

That Time I Almost Got Abducted from Burger King

Learning to trust your gut and speak up. February 16, 2023 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…

Womens Rights

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That Time I Almost Got Abducted from Burger King
That Time I Almost Got Abducted from Burger King
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

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Jan 11

Relationship Baggage (A poem)

January 11, 2023 When your wounds Those you earned And those passed down In the helix, the chin, the spleen, the gut Refuse to crust over Because you bang them up and up and up against wooden bar corners and the legs of boardroom conference tables and kitchen islands of…

Relationships

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Relationship Baggage (A poem)
Relationship Baggage (A poem)
Relationships

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Jan 6

Reclaiming January 6th From Racist Traitors

January 6, 2023 Trigger warning: Confederate flag photo It’s kind of incredible how many of our family’s most cherished memories are marred by the hostile entitlement and the threat of violence from white men. Before I explain further, let me state that there are white men in this world who…

Racism

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Reclaiming January 6th From Racist Traitors
Reclaiming January 6th From Racist Traitors
Racism

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Dec 28, 2022

Could These Premenopause Products Actually Be Working??

Please let it be true. December 28, 2022 I have a tiny old lady from a roadside pharmacy to thank. I had run out of Estroven, the supplement I’d been taking for about two months (just long enough for it to “work”), and was on the hunt for more. It was temporarily out of stock on Amazon Mexico. I have yet to…

Menopause

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Could These Premenopause Products Actually Be Working??
Could These Premenopause Products Actually Be Working??
Menopause

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Dec 27, 2022

Why You Won’t Catch Me “On Camera” in Virtual Meetings

December 27, 2022 This was the first article I published on Medium in March 2022, and it is due for an update! New text in italics. And if you’ve never read it, enjoy! It was with a heavy cloud of dread descending on me that I realized, circa July 2020…

Zoom Meetings

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Why You Won’t Catch Me “On Camera” in Virtual Meetings
Why You Won’t Catch Me “On Camera” in Virtual Meetings
Zoom Meetings

16 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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