Ashley Antunes
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Hey there, welcome to my head space. My special skill is alchemizing pain into power.
I write short stories about real life events, reflections that inspire, and poems.
If you want to support my art, tips are welcomed.
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My Sensitivity Is My Superpower
My sensitivity is my superpower. I used to hate it. I used to hate feeling different. Seeing things different. It always felt like such a burden. Sometimes it made me feel like I was crazy. For a long time I felt like something was terribly wrong with me.
By Ashley Antunes7 months ago in Poets
Fake News. Top Story - August 2024.
A poem written by me in 2020, as I was discovering my evolving sexuality later in life, amidst the chaos that unfolded that year. This is a swirl of a conversation between both myself, as well as the discourse around ignorant people who are intolerant to queer folks. For most of us, understanding our queerness and owning it can come with a lot of guilt and shame.
By Ashley Antunesabout a year ago in Poets
Jackillem: Long Live the Legendary Latina. Third Place in Women Who Inspire Challenge.
I like to think I have an abundance of inspiring women to write about. I could tell you the story of how my grandmother came from living in poverty during and post WWII in a family of 11 to finding wealth in America. I could talk about my incredible doula friends for days that are undoing the indoctrination of fear that exists around birth culture. In case you're unfamiliar, birth doulas are (usually) women who educate and offer emotional and physical support to a pregnant person before, during and after giving birth. It's like the best friend you could ever ask for during pregnancy. I could also introduce you to my main inspiration these days, a bad ass single mother living in a country where she had no friends or family that grew a business that didn't really exist, into a 6 figure company. I'm truly blessed to be surrounded and influenced by so many kick ass women in my life. But when I read the prompt for this writing challenge, there was only one woman who came to mind. I want to tell you about my friend Jacky.
By Ashley Antunes6 years ago in Humans
