Kink Tales: The Twisted Relationship With My Crown
“Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? To such extent you bleach, to get like...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 28
- 5 min
Do You Remember...
Content warning - sexual assault. Memory is a funny thing. Some days it works as you intend it to, recalling the details of your life...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 27
- 5 min
Cycles of Life: 20 Years of Rambling on the Internet
As the earth spins so do the cycles of our lives. I’ve found as I near the 20-year mark the life-changing decisions that were made in my...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 6 min
Life: The Intersection of Passion and Purpose
Originally published May 18th, 2023. A conversation that keeps playing out in my life is one that centers around passion and purpose. ...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 4 min
An Obituary For the Living: A Letter to My Mother and All the Black Women & Girls Society Forgot
Originally published March 24th, 2023. Dear Mother, I’ve started this letter a thousand times and still, the words escape me. I saw a...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 8 min
Seasons of Life
Originally published March 12th, 2023. With age, certain things become easier to see, like the way our lives move in seasons. Those...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 1 min
Healing Ain't Pretty
Originally published March 10th, 2023. Healing ain’t pretty. It forces us to take an honest look at where we’ve been and where we wish to...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 4 min
Gray Matter Revisited
Originally published February 22nd, 2023. Five years ago I sat in a hospital room gazing upon the body that brought me into this world as...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 6 min
Religious Discernment: Reflections from a Black Woman Moving Through UU Spaces
This essay was written in 2022 for the Renaissance Credentialing Program, a training program provided by the Unitarian Universalist...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 6 min
Gold From Pain
Originally published January 26th, 2023. In addition to this being a year of no for me, it’s also a year for examining my proximity to...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 4 min
The Myth of Perfect
This article was originally published on Ramblings of a Dysfunctional Homeschooler in 2015. Previous pieces from that blog will be...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 3 min
The Year of No
Originally published January 10th, 2023. Hello old friend, did you miss me? I can’t say with certainty that I missed you - elements of...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 3 min
Oops I Did It Again
Originally published May 1st, 2019 Second weddings are strange. From debating on if you can wear white, obviously, the virginal jig is...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 2 min
All Night
Originally published April 25th, 2019 Lemonade. An album that became a cultural phenomenon and changed the game. I’m not a music...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 7 min
The Feast of Life
Originally published March 1st, 2019. I was going to start this by saying it’s been a while but apparently, it’s only been about a month...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 4 min
The Slate is Never Clean
Originally published November 10th, 2018. “Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.”– Nicole Sobon...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 4 min
A Bitch For All Seasons
Originally published October 24th, 2018. “A bitch is what they call a woman when she no longer has the patience to deal with the...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 3 min
Seven Stages
Originally published March 19th, 2018. Grief doesn’t always come from death. More often than not grief creeps in during the everyday...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 2 min
You Can't Run Forever
Originally published February 27th, 2018. "There were once three brothers who were traveling along a lonely, winding road at twilight."...
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Rayven Holmes
- Jun 21
- 3 min
It's All Gray Matter
Originally published February 21st, 2018. Sixteen years ago I saw my biological mother for what I thought would be the last time. It was...
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