Beans & Joy’s Journal 🐯🌈

[Beans]

Rooting for you!

[Yimpa]

4 minutes ago, Carl-Richard said:

You didn't contribute anything.

 

[Yimpa]

Journaling and social media presence publicly have been powerful tools for me the past couple years. Even if it’s an illusion of connection, it feels less lonely than doing it solo in a cave.

I do solo journal some things, but most of my focus is public facing. I can’t safely be myself authentically IRL, so online is the closest thing I have. Online I can be vulnerable about psychological baggage, my biases, the raw unfiltered way I actually think. IRL I’m still learning to advocate for my disability, trans identity, and translogical way of being.

Expressing myself publicly online lets me practice saying what I’ve been hiding my whole life; it’s rehearsal for living fully out loud. Beans and I both use our exact legal  names online and in person because we wanted to merge both identities together, no longer hiding behind online pseudonyms. My online identity is training me to show up authentically when I can’t yet do that safely IRL.

[Yimpa]

I am allergic to conformity. 

[Yimpa]

We are in a much better position compared to a year ago. It’s like upgrading from an iPhone 3GS to an iPhone 4.