Bella Dancer
C'MON, YOU'RE A BELLY DANCER! - Of Course You Want Me To Grope You.
..This anti-sex conservatism was so staunchly indoctrinated into me that I eventually started wearing my SCA costumes at the Greek...
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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
- Dec 1, 2022
- 17 min
BELLY DANCE IS *NOT* SEXUAL! - It’s Sensual.
Continued from: --BELLY DANCERS: 🐍luts, Priestesses, H😱🤩chies & G😈ddesses. --NEVER BELLY DANCE TO THIS SONG! - It's About A...
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Bella Dancer
- Nov 14, 2022
- 15 min
BELLY DANCERS: 🐍luts, Priestesses, H😱🤩chies & G😈ddesses
If you've been around here for awhile, then you know how much my world is divided up into five natural Elements that culminate into...
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Bella Dancer
- Apr 7, 2022
- 19 min
BULLSH!T MANWICH - The Lies We Believe (And What We Parrot Ourselves)
Continued from: I AM NOT AN OBJECT - More Rape & Death Threats CLOVEN FRUIT - Dodging Devils in the Pale Moonlight DROWNING - When the...
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Bella Dancer
- Mar 19, 2022
- 23 min
CLOVEN FRUIT: Dodging Devils in the Pale Moonlight
This is NOT a safe space. If you're new around here, please take note of the titles. Because we don't pull punches and use coded...
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Bella Dancer
- Mar 15, 2022
- 21 min
I AM NOT AN OBJECT - More Rape & Death Threats
The words I'm about to share with you from my oldest journal aren’t pretty. They correspond with some of the ugliest things humans can do...
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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
- Feb 23, 2022
- 19 min
FAWN, FREEZE, FIGHT, FLEE - How I Escaped That Rape Threat
If the title didn’t warn you how ugly things have been around here these few weeks, I can’t get much more explicit. Yet we're about...
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Bella Dancer
- Feb 22, 2022
- 22 min
"YOU OWE ME" - Sexual Coercion, Expectations & Assault
Continued from: JERRY-RIGGING - Building My First Set of Armor BUILDING ARMOR - The Hard Way THE DAMSEL - Predators, Instincts, “Nice...
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Bella Dancer
- Feb 3, 2022
- 20 min
BUILDING ARMOR - THE HARD WAY: Some Hard-Hitting Lessons From My HIS-Story
Continued from: THE FIGHTERS - Gawking at My First Heavy Weapons Tournament DAMSEL OUT OF DIS-DRESS - My First Time in Heavy Armor...
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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
- Mar 6, 2021
- 13 min
BEAUTIFUL, SEXY, SILLY, SAVVY: Unearthing Missing Black Muses & Founders
Toward the end of Black History Month, when I became inspired to write this post, I had sooooo hoped to complete it in the week I had...
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Bella Dancer
- Jan 11, 2021
- 15 min
TRUE BLUE: The Quarterback and the Cheerleader
By about April or May of this past year, I started hearing more and more people pray for 2020 to be done. They kept clinging by their...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 6, 2020
- 11 min
GETTING AWAY SCOT-FREE - But Not From the Church
Continued from: THOSE SUMMER NIGHTS - Sneaking Around with Badboys at Dusk July 1986 13 years old …terrified I’ll hear the too-familiar...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 6, 2020
- 18 min
THOSE SUMMER NIGHTS - Sneaking Around With Badboys at Dusk
Can I tell you how often in my life that I have felt like Hannah Baker from 13 Reasons Why? The earliest examples in the show come from...
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Bella Dancer
- Oct 6, 2020
- 11 min
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER - A Subtle Slice of the MeToo Problem
Continued from: TAKE THE SHOT--A Tomboy Cheerleader’s First Crush & Burn I hope you read the title, because that's what we're going to be...
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Bella Dancer
- Jun 30, 2020
- 13 min
TRAPPED INDOORS WITH MY SKELETONS: Getting Repressed Memories Back Amidst Isolation
February 26, 2001, 7:32 a.m. 28 years old My eyes pop open as I claw for a ragged gasp. I stare at the canopy above my bed. Unblinking....
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