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Becka
@beckaeppley.bsky.social
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Writer | Speaker | Queer WLW 🌈 | Constantly Becoming
#RadicalCommunity #EndGenocide #TransLivesMatter 🏳️‍⚧️
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From my Behind-the-Scenes piece in Avoided No More (released last week):

“For me, perfectionism goes hand in hand with expertise…
the bitter couple whispering in my brain.”

The book’s available online everywhere, but bookshop.org > billionaires.

#writing #queer
Music: Anxiety by Doechii
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
beckaeppley.bsky.social
I’m learning to say things without shrinking after years of softening myself to keep the peace.

My essay Permission to Be is part of Avoided No More — 14 writers sharing truths we once avoided. Out 11.20.2025 (TOMORROW)

I stopped gaslighting my own knowing.

#PermissionToBe #AvoidedNo
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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“My essay Permission to Be — my coming-out story — is being published this month in, Avoided No More.

It’s about learning you don’t need permission to be who you already are. 💛

open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...

#PermissionToBe #AvoidedNoMore #ComingOutStory #LateInLifeLesbian #QueerVoices
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social …. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Watch the full clip here: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMpomrF6/

#zohran #zohranmamdani
November 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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“The Least of These” Were Never Someone Else.

Maybe the poor aren’t “always with us.” Maybe we just keep building systems that make it so.

The real work isn’t saving anyone — it’s remembering proximity makes us human.

open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...

#Deconstruction #Community #Writing #SNAP
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Pondering how we let others define who we are and the power we give them to invalidate emotions that we experience.
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Music Love, peace and happiness by Goltare MC

#overreacting #dontgiveyourpoweraway #youremotionsarevalid #queer #wlw
October 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I wrote this earlier this year—when the world already felt like it was breaking.
Now, those cracks have widened.
Maybe “not knowing where to start” is exactly where we begin.

Full essay: Not Knowing Where to Start - link in bio.

#BeckaEppley #AMileDeep #RadicalHope #GriefAndGrace #EmpireIsFalling
October 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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The magic I was taught to fear was never outside of me. It was my connection, my power, my hope.

✨ New writing on faith, survival, and reclaiming magic.
What power were you told to hide?
🔗 Read more link in bio

#Exvangelical #SpiritualHealing #ReclaimingMagic #BreakingCycles #InnerPower
September 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Realizing that faith does not sustain your hope, but the dissipation of that faith can create the clearing to see the hope has always been inside of you.

Music: poetry of things - pinegroove

#rapture #rapture2025 #wakingup #queerauthor #wlw #queerstories #lesbian #wlw #queerwriters #exvangelical
September 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Grateful that I get to be out now as a lesbian, even though my journey took 40+ years.

#comphet #wlw #lesbiansofinstagram #wuhluhwuh #lateinlifelesbian🏳️‍🌈 #conversiontherepy #queer #lesbiansover40 #faithdeconstruction #exvangelical
September 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Rage burns fast. Hope is harder. But hope is the only thing that stays. ✨

New Substack → Hope Demands More Than Rage
🔗 Link in bio

#HopeDemandsMore #HealingJourney #RageToHope #realtalk #collectivepower
September 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I’m still learning that healing doesn’t always mean removing every trace…

This piece is rooted in memory, survival, and growth that’s both mine and inherited.

For anyone carrying what they’ve already let go of—this is for you.

🎙️ Full version on Substack (link bio)
🌿 Reel voiced + written by me
May 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Porch Time with Becka - #comfortiscostly - Link in Bio to read.

#AuthenticityMatters
#QueerAndBecoming
#UndoingExpectations
#MotherWound
#SpokenWordPoetry
#HealingThroughWords
#QueerVoices
#ComingIntoSelf #mothersday
#wuhluhwuh #porchtimewithbecka #faithdeconstruction #exvangelical #queerpoetry
May 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Today is Lesbian Visibility Day, and in honor of it, I want to share a talk I gave last night at a Sapphic Storytelling event.

open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...

#StillBecoming
#QueerHealing
#LesbianVisibility
#LesbianVisibilityDay
#QueerStoriesMatter
#HealingJourney
#lateinlifelesbian
April 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Friday, 4/25 @ 7pm at Divine Barrel Brewing, 3701 N Davidson St

I’ll be one of several speakers at Sapphic Storytelling Night, hosted by @lesbianfriendsofcharlotte

This space is for everyone — lesbians, sapphics, the whole queer fam, and allies.
#QueerJoy #sapphicvisibility #charlottenc
April 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Curated Vulnerability - can read the whole piece on my substack link in my bio.
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#lesbiansover40 #lesbianwriter #vulnerability #queerwriter #queer #wlw #lateinlifelesbian
Music: birds of a feather officially instrumental - Dan Swift Del Rey
April 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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parents or guardians of queer kiddos. If you have a queer kiddo ages 12 -17 an amazing organization called Brave Trails has recently announced that they will be doing a summer camp in Georgia. The camp is within driving distance of Charlotte. *scholarships available

www.bravetrails.org/summer-camp
March 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
beckaeppley.bsky.social
Justin Trudeau Prime Minister for Canada, press conference, March 4, 2025 - addressing the citizens of the United States….

#JustinTrudeau #tariffs #MSNBC #canada #america #unitedstates
March 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...

“…learning more about who I have always been underneath the curated fragments of who I was taught to be.”
- ✨link in bio to read article

#TraumaHealing #ReclaimingMyStory #HopeChest #TraumaTrophies #comphetlesbian #amiledeep #beckaeppley #queer #religoustrauma
February 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Being in love when you are in love with who you are….. is a brand new experience for me.

#lesbiancouple #lateinlifelesbian🏳️‍🌈 #comphet #comphetlesbian #ValentinesDay #valentinesday2025 #queerlove
February 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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"Not knowing where to start does not mean we are incapable of moving forward. I believe uncertainty can be a beacon that draws us into community.”

beckaeppley.substack.com/p/not-knowin...

#DeconstructingSystems #EmpireFalling #Unlearning #BreakingTheNarrative
#WeNeedEachOther #lesbianauthor #queer
February 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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This is for us, my fellow racialized ⚪️ friends…all of us. Let us strive to operate from curiosity and not defensiveness…We have a lot of deconstruction to do in regard to what we were taught about the history of the USA. It will take more than our lifetimes.

Thank you @Eden for making this video.
January 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Hypernormalization—a state where everyone knows the system is broken, but we all pretend it’s working anyway.

@foushy - “If you feel like something is deeply off with the world, you’re not alone.

Many of us are looking around & seeing a society going through the motions— cont in comments 👇🏻
January 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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open.substack.com/pub/beckaepp...

“I am learning that when you get what you want without understanding who you truly are, the love you receive in that context often serves as a temporary solution…”

#LateInLifeLesbian
#DivorceJourney
#HealingJourney
#GriefAndGrowth
#ComingOutStory
#QueerHealing
January 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
beckaeppley.bsky.social
Had my annual mammogram today, and this was in the dressing room…. So I thought I’d share the Holiday Cheer….
😂

#annualmammogram #annualmammossavelives #mammogramssavelives
December 16, 2024 at 10:31 PM