In our early September post, we showed you a time lapse video of our current ideas for the illustration on the cover on our poetry book. Now… [Read More on Patreon]
Author: Kella Hanna-Wayne
Patreon Bonus Content: What the Darkest Poem in My Book is About
We’re continuing to share some poems that took on a totally different meaning after we were diagnosed with DID. Today we wanted to share another full poem with you, called…. (Read More on Patreon)
Patreon Bonus Content: Dissociation & Amnesia in Our Poetry
As part of our ongoing poetry book insights, we wanted to share with you some poems that took on a totally different meaning after we were diagnosed with DID in August of last year…. (Read More on Patreon)
Patreon Bonus Content: The Poem About My Alter AJ
As part of our ongoing poetry book insights, we wanted to share with you some poems that took on a totally different meaning after we were diagnosed with DID… (Read more on Patreon)
Patreon Bonus Content: Spotting Dissociative Identity Disorder in my Poetry
But the thing our poetry always did well was to take complex, intangible feelings and make them real and specific. Which means that there are signs of DID all over our poetry… (Read More on Patreon)
Patreon Bonus Content: Time-Lapse Video of Drafting Poetry Book’s Cover Art
About two months ago, we switched from using our screenless drawing tablet and the program Krita to a beautiful IPad and the program ProCreate to do our artwork. One of the cool features that ProCreate offers is to record a time-lapse video… (Read more on Patreon)
Patreon Bonus Content: A Poetry Book in Four Parts
Since pretty early on in its development, our poetry book has been separated into four parts. I wanted to share with you what…. (Read the rest on Patreon)
Hiding Behind “Good Intentions”: Why Good Intent Does Not Erase Oppressive Impact
CN: general discussion of oppressive social dynamics, brief discussion of misgendering We’re all familiar with the people who tell you outright that they hold hateful opinions towards oppressed groups. But for every blatantly malicious bigot, there are 10 people who “meant well” or “didn’t mean it like that” or “had good intentions” when they said or did something that actually had a harmful effect on a member of an oppressed group. You have probably been …Read More
Patreon Bonus Content: Insights on New Sections of My Poetry Book Part 2
One element of our poetry book we’ve continued to work on is titling the poems. It’s easy to come up with a title for a poem in its
New Merch: “Not Just a Phase” Bisexuality Pride
For a while now, I’ve been meaning to make some merch using different pride flag colors. It seemed fitting for the first design to be the bisexual pride flag colors, blue, purple, and pink, since I’m bisexual and the friend who requested this design is also bisexual. I made a version with the words “Not Just a Phase” to honor the specific scrutiny bisexual folks face about their sexuality, but I also made a version …Read More