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Ladies of Influence
July 29, 2005
Tomorrow I board a train for Paris and James, beginning phase two of my 2005 European adventure. A year ago I’d just returned from a European adventure and had begun to blog. I didn’t yet know that I’d be making contact with a number of incredible personalities through my blog and other people’s blogs. Today I’m thinking about three strong and amazing women who’ve really touched me and challenged me to think about life, relationships, sexuality, choices and the things that happen to us. I want to leave you with three links to the blogs of women who are strong and amazing and have had quite an impact on me over the course of the past year. They write about themselves, their strengths and weaknesses, and their mistakes and triumphs with powerful honesty and hard-won pride and beauty.
Layla: Diary of a Life in Progress: Though she used to write under a different name and keep a different blog, Layla was the very first person to leave a comment on my blog. She writes powerfully and unabashedly about her struggles with her sexuality mixed in with tales of her fucked up and not far-removed times. Layla is all over the charts; her blog is very much about the process of figuring out what the fuck is going on, and she isn’t afraid to write beautifully about ugly things.
HeroineGirl: I first discovered HG through a comment she left on another sex worker’s blog. Her humor and honesty struck me immediately. Early on, the driving force of her blogs was her memoirs of her heroin addiction and her life as a prostitute. She has since expanded to talk about her childhood, her family, her present day realities (often hilarious – believe me, the girl is far from all doom and gloom) and her struggle to overcome Hepatitis C. She is finishing up her Hep C treatment this week, after which she’ll hopefully go on to lead a hepatitis-free life full of blogging, book-writing, and tae kwon do.
Kinky Librarian: I’m pretty sure Nadia found me, but I could be wrong. She’s the only one of these three women I’ve met in person and become friends with in real life, and actually one of the few people I’ve met and befriended because of my blog. Nadia is a really brave woman who isn’t afraid to open up emotionally on her blog in thought-provoking and intense ways.
I know I’m sounding like a broken record by this point, but I am full of awe for these ladies and their awesomeness. I hope to be blogger-compatriots with them for much time to come.
I’ll be checking email and perhaps even blogging periodically over the next few weeks, so keep those emails and comments coming if you’ve got something to say.
Posted by Dacia at July 29, 2005 08:21 AM
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Why thank you, dear. You know I’m full of awe for you, as well.
Posted by: layla_x at July 29, 2005 09:57 AM
A mutual admiration society is in order. You’ve really touched me with this entry. Thank you. It takes an awesome lady to know one. ;-)
Posted by: Nadia at July 29, 2005 07:55 PM
I’m a big fan of both Dacia’s and Nadia’s writing and I can’t wait to dive into Layla’s and HG’s.
Posted by: Keith at July 29, 2005 08:26 PM
I’ve been a longtime reader of both yours and Nadia’s blog, and have been reading about Nadia’s recent difficulities (understandably) after the rape at Jeffersons sex party. What I’m wondering is why none of the participants ever comment on the inicident? (on nadia’s blog or elsewhere). Dacia, I know you commented briefly immediately after the incident, but the remainder of the core group seems to be particularly silent … . As Nadia has been blogging about the incident a lot lately, I’d be really interested in knowing your take—since you are a frequent guest at the party. Is the incident ignored as a way to “protect” the idea that readers have about the parties? (fun, sexy, very safe, etc) as many readers DO eventually become guests (madeline, nadia, etc). Or is there some other reason?
And thanks again to all the ladies for giving us gentle readers such thought-provokiing work to delve into each week—you speak for all of us women out there struggling to define our sexuality, and are definitely MY personal heroines :)
All best, Jennifer
Posted by: jennifer at July 29, 2005 10:46 PM
