Tag: healing

Chloe Zhao Goes ‘Nude’ for the Oscars

ariana sexton-hughes

Perhaps it’s her privileged background as heir to a 21st century expat Chinese industrialist—or maybe it’s just carefully cultivated irreverence, but Chloe Zhao’s ‘natural’ turn at the 93rd Oscar’s is drawing notice from Beijing to Britain.

Chloe Zhao sans make-up at the Oscars

Chloe Zhao wears two Oscars rather than make-up

https://qz.com/2002409/chloe-zhaos-oscars-look-challenges-chinas-beauty-standards/

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very much alive

ariana sexton-hughes

very much alive
september 23, 2019

i
haven’t felt
dead
inside
for
a very
very
very
long
time

i haven’t
not really
maybe sometimes
maybe after
an inner
whine
a cry
a stolen kiss
in the very nick of time
so quiet
my head has been
so quiet
the voices
the faceless
the baseless.bombshells

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you didn’t know?

ariana sexton-hughes

you didn’t know
what i felt
when that moment passed away
you didn’t know
what i felt
when you kissed
that last lonely tear
the one that went astray

you didn’t know
what i felt
when you lingered
just
a little
too long
when your
fingers
came to know
so much more
than i could ever

[really, truly, ever]

explore
but
that
wasn’t
really
the point
because
you didn’t
know
what
i
felt

you didn’t
you
really
didn’t
know?

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dear mum

ariana sexton-hughes

WARNING: might be triggering with mentions of abuse, but they are not explicit in any way.

Dear Mum,

I don’t hate you.

I really don’t.

I know that you had a hard time.
…a really hard time…
Yes. I know this.
I do.

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when i write (perhaps to heal)

ariana sexton-hughes

when i write….
….perhaps, to heal….
i love…. the texture, the touch,
the sensation,
that….
“feel”
the gentle “click, click, click” of the keys…
….the real deal is what i need.
yes,
that
energy
the intensity that amazing… ………….propensity ………….to measure……………..so

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