Becoming familiar with my genitalia III

“At 21 I finally took ownership of my body, my sexuality, and its pleasures. At 22 I can finally say it was I who gave myself my first sexual pleasure.”

Becoming familiar with my genitalia II

Once I become enraptured with something, I am succumbed. Vagina and eventually sexuality, became a whole new world to discover and learn. This hearth that lays near but remains in many ways a mystery, I wanted to be more familiar with her, befriend her. Learn her quirks and preferences. There was also the ‘innocent girl’…

Becoming familiar with my genitalia I

I kept putting off writing this post because every time I came to it, I kept laughing and shrinking in embarrassment. It makes me want to go back to 18 year old Selina and pat her head or shake her. This story goes back to January 2016 during my Christmas break in Mayrhofen, a small…

Body, Remember when…

Write a Sweet Love Note to Your Body #bodylovechallenge Dear BODY, Remember you went on the JSA summer program at Princeton University? You came back home after a month and a friend told you, “How are you still so skinny? So many Marshallese go to the US and get fat.” You wondered how to respond…

To be attractive is to be condemned, is what I thought (pt. 2)

For me, “Thank you.” these two beautiful words became my lifeline. My reassurance. My therapy. In order to remain calm before a potential storm, the words slips out of my mouth without a thought. “Thank you.” There are some individuals, bless their soul, who continue to give compliments. One right after the other. I know…