Use the anger you’re feeling now to get caught up and keep fighting it.
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Use the anger you’re feeling now to get caught up and keep fighting it.
The body can know before the brain is done learning.
Especially when you were raised with a script that no longer fits.
Conversation with Anne-Marie Zanzal. Link in bio.
#ComingOutLater #FaithDeconstruction
Image credit: @LatinoMuslimUnity
“Say their names:
-Silverio Villegas González (38)
-Keith Porter (43)
-Renee Nicole Good (37)
-Jaime Alanís (57)
-Jocelyn Rojo Carranza (11)
-Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez (52)
Rest in Power. We will not stop. They could have been anyone of us. “
Don't believe newspapers that say we've lost. The fight back is strong 👇
www.wearequeeraf.com/dont-believe...
“For the first time, I feel good in my body.”
New essay on embodiment, aging, and staying present with yourself.
A Body That Has Lived — Substack
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#Writing
#PersonalEssay
#QueerStories
#Embodiment
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
From my Behind-the-Scenes piece in Avoided No More (released last week):
“For me, perfectionism goes hand in hand with expertise…
the bitter couple whispering in my brain.”
The book’s available online everywhere, but bookshop.org > billionaires.
#writing #queer
Music: Anxiety by Doechii
I’m closing chapters without the fear I used to carry.
And the essay I wrote two years ago—Permission to Be—was finally published in Avoided No More last week.
Let the chapter close. You’re still becoming who you need to be. Link in bio.
#AvoidedNoMore #PermissionToBe #QueerWriter
I’m learning to say things without shrinking after years of softening myself to keep the peace.
My essay Permission to Be is part of Avoided No More — 14 writers sharing truths we once avoided. Out 11.20.2025 (TOMORROW)
I stopped gaslighting my own knowing.
#PermissionToBe #AvoidedNo
Today was Day Two of Customs and Border Patrol’s Charlotte Operation. Members of our Safe to Work community patrols hit the streets early this morning and observed federal agents preparing to spend their day questioning grocery shoppers.
CLT, these guys are CBP agents, active in abductions along N Tryon this morning.
Saw them myself, was confirmed by other trained volunteers as well.
“My essay Permission to Be — my coming-out story — is being published this month in, Avoided No More.
It’s about learning you don’t need permission to be who you already are. 💛
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#PermissionToBe #AvoidedNoMore #ComingOutStory #LateInLifeLesbian #QueerVoices
As expected, most schools receiving @GovBillLee’s private school voucher taxpayer handouts have shady testing & transparency, and “patchwork” curriculums “largely based in Christianity”
(Betsy Devos openly admitted “advancing God’s kingdom” is the goal) nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/10/t...
Music spiritual peace, and happiness by Lenzspot
@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social …. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Watch the full clip here: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpomrF6/
#zohran #zohranmamdani
“The Least of These” Were Never Someone Else.
Maybe the poor aren’t “always with us.” Maybe we just keep building systems that make it so.
The real work isn’t saving anyone — it’s remembering proximity makes us human.
open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...
#Deconstruction #Community #Writing #SNAP
Charlotte Regional Market, Saturdays except 11/29, 8am- 12:30pm Davidson Farmer Market, Saturdays 9-12 Matthews Farmer Market, Saturdays 8-12
Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, NC is offering $50 in free SNAP tokens to Charlotte EBT card holders at three area farmer's markets.
Trans activist and Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy has died aged 78.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4q7d0nX
Pondering how we let others define who we are and the power we give them to invalidate emotions that we experience.
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Music Love, peace and happiness by Goltare MC
#overreacting #dontgiveyourpoweraway #youremotionsarevalid #queer #wlw
I wrote this earlier this year—when the world already felt like it was breaking.
Now, those cracks have widened.
Maybe “not knowing where to start” is exactly where we begin.
Full essay: Not Knowing Where to Start - link in bio.
#BeckaEppley #AMileDeep #RadicalHope #GriefAndGrace #EmpireIsFalling
The Global Sumud Flotilla says its fleet of over 50 ships has entered the ‘high-risk zone.’
Music credit Contains: Dena - Finnagram Tui
The magic I was taught to fear was never outside of me. It was my connection, my power, my hope.
✨ New writing on faith, survival, and reclaiming magic.
What power were you told to hide?
🔗 Read more link in bio
#Exvangelical #SpiritualHealing #ReclaimingMagic #BreakingCycles #InnerPower
The President of Slovenia at the United Nations 🇺🇳
Realizing that faith does not sustain your hope, but the dissipation of that faith can create the clearing to see the hope has always been inside of you.
Music: poetry of things - pinegroove
#rapture #rapture2025 #wakingup #queerauthor #wlw #queerstories #lesbian #wlw #queerwriters #exvangelical
Grateful that I get to be out now as a lesbian, even though my journey took 40+ years.
#comphet #wlw #lesbiansofinstagram #wuhluhwuh #lateinlifelesbian🏳️🌈 #conversiontherepy #queer #lesbiansover40 #faithdeconstruction #exvangelical
Rage burns fast. Hope is harder. But hope is the only thing that stays. ✨
New Substack → Hope Demands More Than Rage
🔗 Link in bio
#HopeDemandsMore #HealingJourney #RageToHope #realtalk #collectivepower
Andrea Gibson
8/13/1975 - 7/14/2025
#poetry #Chicago
I’m still learning that healing doesn’t always mean removing every trace…
This piece is rooted in memory, survival, and growth that’s both mine and inherited.
For anyone carrying what they’ve already let go of—this is for you.
🎙️ Full version on Substack (link bio)
🌿 Reel voiced + written by me
