Creepin' It Real
🕑 Added 2021-11-04 11:13:04 +0000 UTCI have always had a love for the odd, off-beat, creepy, scary, macabre, whatever you want to call it. Growing up in a religious cult that doesn't allow for the exploration of the ungodly parts of life, I always felt like there was something inherently wrong with me.
My momma loves to tell the story from when I was a little girl, sitting in church and one of the speakers asked all the children of the congregation what they want to be when they grow up. My hand shot straight in the air and when I was called upon I said, " A solid gold dancer!" In all honesty, I got pretty damn close. It wasn't a joke, but it got a good laugh. That was obviously not the answer they were looking for. As I got older and started learning about the world myself, I realized I was finding more meaning and purpose in studying the hidden parts of life and the human experience. I think that's how I got involved with burlesque. It isn't exactly explicit, but the connecting thread between witchcraft and stripping is the empowerment of the feminine. So, looking back at this little girl sitting in the cemetery, trying to freak out the neighborhood I realize I was doing something so much more important than that. I was finding the quiet space, away from the judgment of the living, to connect with the divine feminine and start my path in this life. She helped me to become the woman I am today, for better or worse. I owe everything to her. How did you show your rebellion as a child?
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Chris Jock
I never rebelled I was a mommas boy 😇
Rafe Huey
Question ok?
Kevin Barnes
Plastic problems are so real.We have made this world so hard to feel.The meat and consumer world is like a disease to mother Earth. Time to go off grid. Camper van for me. World traveller now.Blog and swim sounds good to me.See you in Puerto Rico.
Kevin Barnes
Fantastic.
Kevin Barnes
Manchester at the time b4 it exploded.
Kevin Barnes
Pete Shelley for me.Buzzcocks.
John Lambdin
To say how parallel our upbringings were but not is uncanny. I myself, was raised by country, feminine hippies. But with generation after generation of poverty n struggle. It was only through the “9-5” life structure I was fought. But I was about 7, when I heard Nirvana “in bloom” followed by Green Day’s “dookie” album. Freaked my family out because all of a sudden Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain were my gods, lol. Navigating this world is so much work, n in my current spiral, your openness is beyond helping me. Thank u, thank u and thankkkkkk u!!! JL
Kathy Randle
When I was a child up to the age of about 16, I was shy. Because of my weight and the way I was often treated. But getting my drivers license was the first thing to happen that made me feel no shy anymore. Plus I had a sweet car I bought myself......
Kim Rice
I don’t think I ever “rebelled”, but I was (am) definitely different from my peers. While everyone else was obsessing over AC/DC, Journey, Air Supply and other contemporary 80s music, I was in my own little niche obsessing over the Monkees, the Beatles, and Herman’s Hermits. 😝 In college, while the other girls were trying to get into sororities, I was hanging out with the campus Society for Creative Anachronism group. Hmm… Maybe I was rebelling…
