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cherise lily nana

My year in verse

12/31/2017

 
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Untitled (From the Rapture series) by Shirin Neshat.
My beloved grandmother always said, "Nothing is true until it is experienced." This year I set out to discover what the word "intimacy" meant to me and how I could use it as a compass. As a result, I experienced ways of being and parts of self that have been buried for a very long time. I'm still in the thick of excavation, but these are some of the things I learned in the process. Not quite affirmations, these short verses emerged as a kind of manifesto, a declaration of desires, a map to a new way of relating to myself and others.
on live vs digital relationships...
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on sexuality...
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on boundaries...
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on trauma...
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on work and purpose...
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on ego...
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on womanhood/motherhood...
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on belonging...
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    Cherise Lily Nana is a writer, artist and mentor based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Her essays on archetypal symbolism and the mythic imagination have been published in Dumbo Feather, Paradiso, and CosmoMuse, and in 2019 Cherise was a panellist on 'Contemporary Poetry' at the Bellingen Writers Festival. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Art History) and a Graduate Diploma in Professional Writing.

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I pay my respects to the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, the Traditional Custodians of the storied country on which I live & dream. I acknowledge their elders past, present and emerging, as well as the ancestors of this land. Their sovereignty has never been ceded.
Always was, always will be.

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