Chingona Fire, a feminist poetry collective consisting of Angela Aguirre and Yesika Salgado, shares a self help poem on post-breakup advice with The Strange is Beautiful. They talk about how their poetry is helping other Latinas and how the poetry community acts as a support system. Subscribe to our Youtube channel to be notified of part 2 of “Self Help + Self Love with Chingona Fire” next Wednesday!
A residential home for eating disorders didn’t work, but returning home to the support of her loved ones did xoxox.
“Drugs and alcohol have become an integral part of the music scene, there’s no way around it sometimes.
Figure yourself out before you step into that environment and it makes things a lot easier. If you’re already lost, or figuring things out, throwing drinking into the mix will just keep you lost.”– Justin Cornwall
May is mental health awareness month! Take a photo of yourself with a self-help tip and hashtag #TheStrangeisBeautiful. Tag your friends to share their advice too <333.
I was one of about 20 goth extras in self-proclaimed alien Soko’s new 80’s-cheesed music video today for a song she collaborated on with Ariel Pink called “Lovetrap.” She asked us to dress in all black and look “goth” so I wore my vintage black lace dress from Ragg Mopp and black combat boots from Urban Outfitters.