jessandthesea

I was sexually assaulted as a teenager too

I, like many others, was sexually assaulted as a teenager too. I wasn't raped, because someone heard me screaming and saved me. If that guy who tried to rape me...

Pretty Soon They'll Be Calling Me Topless in Mexico City

(like Sleepless in Seattle but less alliteration and more risque) Shadowban Make me invisible so I can walk carelessly through the world in whatever I please. I...

I Am a Product of My Experiences

Do you ever speculate about how certain life experiences may have impacted others way down the road. Say your first real crush, the kind with butterflies, the k...

Kid Pistola's New Single and His Surprise Actress in the Music Video

Latin music has been making its way into the mainstream outside of Latin countries more and more. When I was in Prague last month, I was looking for something t...

This is the Start of Steemit Year Two For Me: Notes From an Ex-CamGirl

It’s been a little over a year since I joined Steemit, so I'm doing a sort of re-introduction to commemorate. I joined because a coworker of a friend said he wa...

YOU DON'T NEED GUCCI TO BE HAPPY

A picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, the picture has a couple words, but conveys a whole concept. Capitalism and materialism is seeping further an...

Love Is Also Sometimes A Slaughterhouse

++ episode 139 of Skin on Sundays Mouths Have you felt the river exit your body after a long storm? Have you noticed the mouth where the water drains away touch...

And the winner is...

I held a stream of consciousness poetry contest, and I am finally ready to pick the winner. It took me a bit to decide, because I was going back and forth betwe...

How I Got Rich

You know when you live in Mexico City where printing things on shirts is super affordable and easy because there is one street spanning for about a mile or more...

Three Ways To Make Sure Your Love Is Real

It's a strange story, which is my story. It was the first time I fell in love, for real love. Instead of having a real relationship, we had a secret one. Why? B...

A Stream of Consciousness POETRY CONTEST

++ I am running a poetry contest that ends June 9th. It's on my most popular platform: Instagram. The prize for the winners is that I will write your poem on a ...

Metaphors Exist For A Reason

These are my legs, at age 33, living in the center Mexico City, a beautiful, crazy, polluted, but not too polluted to see the sky, busy, noisy, culturally rich,...

A List of Strange Confessions I Made

I don’t have a problem with any word so long as it’s not used with bad intentions. Words like slut, cunt, nigga, fag, whatever. If you find a way to say it with...

Most of America Doesn't Know Who J. Balvin Is???

Part 1: Philosophical/Political Things A recent morning I woke up and Omar was watching an Anderson Paak interview. In the interview, Anderson Paak made a comme...

Are You The Judge?

I went outside to take this picture, and I even walked around the block without a bra on, just like this. It’s liberating, but it’s also uncomfortable to feel p...

Suicide and Everything After

Today is the 19th anniversary of the suicide of my best friend. She was 14 years old. I was 14 years old. There won’t be a year that goes by that this day doesn...

The Mind Starts Out Quiet

It Starts Quiet The mind doesn’t start screaming like a crowd in the dark after a gun goes off It starts still. It starts quiet. I took a quick weekend trip to ...

You Are Not Owed Sex

A REMINDER: YOU ARE NOT OWED SEX. Why am I saying this? I just read an article in Vox about a new movement of mainly white men who think they are owed sex and t...

Getting Meta with the Butterflies

Last week, I went to the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporario in the south side of Mexico City, on the UNAM campus. I went because of this exhibit I kept hear...

It's My Birthday and I'll ______ If I Want To

I have been absent from Steemit a bit lately, but I'm gonna come back soon. I've just been on my computer so much for work and Skin on Sundays, I can't bare to ...