Bella Dancer
THE INCONCEIVABLE - ASSumptions About the Gladiatrix
Continued from: --GLADIATORS HIJACK MY LIFE - How I Started Writing My Gladiatrix --GLADIATRIX?! - "Gladia-what?" Female Gladiator...
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Memoir Table of Contents
Welcome Aboard!
--"Izzy, how did you start dancing?"
--"What got you into martial arts?"
--"What kind of dancer/martial artist/writer are you?
--"How do you deal with brain damage, bodily injury and
C-PTSD, yet still dance, write, train, live the way you do?"
--"How do you still find joy and beauty amidst pain and loss?"
--"Wow, you should write your memoirs!"
This Is My Story
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Bella Dancer
- Feb 24, 2022
- 1 min
RUSSIA & UKRAINE: Why I Write What I Write
This is why I write about childhood bullying. "OMGawwwwwd, it happened so long ago. Get over it!" Yup, it did. And it's all the same...
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 29, 2022
- 8 min
JERRY-RIGGING - Building My First Set of Armor
Continued from: THE FIGHTERS - Gawking at My First Heavy Weapons Tournament DAMSEL OUT OF DIS-DRESS: My First Time in Heavy Armor June...
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 17, 2022
- 20 min
MAYA: DANCE, DRUMS, DREAMS - My First Time Dancing Around the Fire
Continued from - My First SCA Event: THE FIRST NIGHT - Halfdan Was There THE FIGHTERS - Gawking at My First Heavy Weapons Tournament...
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 10, 2022
- 19 min
DAMSEL OUT OF DIS-DRESS - My First Time In Heavy Armor
Continued from: THE TREBUCHET - A Siege Engine Knocks My Life 163 Degrees Sideways THE SHIRE - Making Garb, Travel Plans and a Home in...
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 8, 2022
- 14 min
THE FIGHTERS - Gawking at My First Heavy Weapons Tournament
Continued from: THE TREBUCHET - A Siege Engine Knocks My Life 163 Degrees Sideways THE SHIRE - Making Garb, Travel Plans and a Home in...
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Bella Dancer
- Dec 17, 2021
- 7 min
THE SCA BY NIGHT - No Sleep At Pennsic!
Continued from: STAMINA - How I Became A History Major THE TREBUCHET - A Siege Engine Leads Me to Medieval Reenactment THE SHIRE - Making...
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Bella Dancer
- Dec 14, 2021
- 8 min
THE SCA BY DAY: My Corners of Make-Believe
Continued from: STAMINA - How I Became A History Major THE TREBUCHET - How I Got Into Medieval Reenactment THE SHIRE - Making Garb,...
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Bella Dancer
- Dec 3, 2021
- 13 min
THE SHIRE - Making Garb, Travel Plans, and a Home in the SCA
Continued from: STAMINA - How I Became a History Major THE TREBUCHET - A Siege Engine Leads Me To Medieval Reenactment “Oh, yeah,” the...
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Bella Dancer
- Nov 28, 2021
- 7 min
THE TREBUCHET - A Siege Engine Knocks My Life 163 Degrees Sideways
Continued From: ENTERING THE ARENA - Gladiators Hijack My Life GLADIATRIX: "Gladia-what?!" - Female Gladiator STAMINA - Spectacled...
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Bella Dancer
- Sep 6, 2021
- 7 min
TAKE THE HIT - Asking Fighters to Critique My Gladiatrix
Continued from: ENTERING THE ARENA - Gladiators Hijack My Life GLADIATRIX - "Gladia-what?!" Female Gladiator STAMINA - Academia Critiques...
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 29, 2021
- 13 min
STAMINA: Spectacled Book Nerds Teach Me How To Fight
Thanksgiving 1994 21 years old I toss up a cringing smile in response to the rectangle of disconcerted faces staring me down. I’ve just...
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 25, 2021
- 8 min
TWISTED HISTORY & MYTH - Adventures in World-Building
Thank you, Canva! Now if only you'd let me search for the artist's name so I could credit it. "Oooh, Izzy, you write novels?" I do. It's...
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 23, 2021
- 7 min
GLADIATRIX: "Gladia-what?!" - Female Gladiator
When I wrote my Persephone novel, I had originally planned it to be a one-off. Hahahahahahahahaha…this is me we’re talking about. You...
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Bella Dancer
- Aug 22, 2021
- 15 min
ENTERING THE ARENA - Gladiators Hijack My Life
I sincerely hope it's obvious that, in these posts about gladiators and the Roman arena, we're going to be talking about violence,...
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Bella Dancer
- Jul 6, 2021
- 10 min
SECRETS THAT LIE HIDDEN - Mary Wigman & Expressionist Dance 2
Continued from: AN EXPRESSION...A SPEAKING OUT - Mary Wigman & Expressionist Dance ...Expressionism was part of the broad Modernist...
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Bella Dancer
- Apr 29, 2021
- 15 min
SHE-ROES & VILLAINS: The Characters That Made Me
If you don't know the tales or characters I'm about to reference, I've put links at the end. Otherwise half this post would be links....
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Bella Dancer
- Feb 17, 2021
- 21 min
WELL CRAP, NOW I'M TOO WHITE - Part 3: My CON-Fusing Search To Find Home
If you're just joining us, I highly recommend that you read these first: --THE GREAT "WHITE BELLY DANCER" WAR OF 2014 --IF *I'M* NOT...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 1, 2020
- 8 min
UGLY DUCKLINGS, SWANS & BIRDS OF DIFFERENT FEATHERS: BellaDancer Takes Ballet and Finds Loie Fuller
**WRITTEN ON MEDIUM JUNE 9, 2020 Fall 1991 18 years old I used to think I was good at dance. Now, training among real dancers for the...
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