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Conscious Communication: Art, Sex & Politics in a Transformational Culture Featuring Author Artist & Truth Teller - Dani Katz

December 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM

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SexMagickandDessert #Podcast #interview w: Dani Katz | available on #bloodboneandghosts #substack ➕streaming platforms #sexmagickanddessert #danikatz

Conscious Communication: Art, Sex & Politics in a Transformational Culture w Author, Artist Dani Katz

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A conversation with author & artist Dani Katz on conscious communication, art, sex, & politics in a changing world. Language as liberation, humor as medicine, and words as tools for transformation. Li...

The Man Who Stays in Her Head: The Science of Female Obsession and Emotional Dominance

November 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM

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A must read by @anastasiawilliams.bsky.social

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By Anastasia Williams

In the Space Between Chapters

November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM

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Sometimes, to write a memoir in fragments is to dive into the oldest corners of memory, to unearth the patchwork of scars that shaped the now. It’s not always a gentle excavation.

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Why The Ink Slowed Down. Some stories burn bright and fast—others take decades to surface. The Space Between Chapters is where the writing slows down, where memory and truth wrestle for the same breat...

November 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM

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Keeping Your Creativity Alive

I gave an interview to BOLD JOURNEY and laid bare what happens when you stop being behind the camera and start being the subject.

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“Keeping Your Creativity Alive” I gave an interview to BOLD JOURNEY and laid bare what happens when you stop being behind the camera and start being the subject. We talk about submitting to the past...

November 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM

Franceasca

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“We were all running from something. Mine just happened to be terminal.”

EDGE OF 17 | ABOUT A GIRL | CH 3 |

#Memoir #BloodBoneAndGhosts #Writers #WomenWhoWrite #CinematicWriting #Storytelling #90s #ComingOfAge #GriefAndGrowth #WritingCommunity #Substack

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https://bloodboneandghosts.substack.com/p/edge-of-seventeen There’s an age you never really outgrow. For me, it’s sixteen—the year when everything started to hum louder, when I learned that chaos cou...

Ch 2. "Heaven Help Me For The Way I Am." A raw coming-of-age in 1990s Miami, where loyalty blurred, desire lingered, and innocence cracked beneath the chaos of adolescence.

October 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM

Franceasca

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“At 12, my body had betrayed me w/ its contradictions: breasts that drew eyes as if I drawn in the 1940’s, trapped in a frame that stopped growing in 6th grade. 5ft tall w/ a baby face, underneath heavy black eyeliner & dark red “fuck me” lipstick.”

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About A Girl

Ch 2. "Heaven Help Me For The Way I Am." A raw coming-of-age in 1990s Miami, where loyalty blurred, desire lingered, and innocence cracked beneath the chaos of adolescence.

October 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM

Franceasca

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@voyagelamag did a follow up feature about my new project. @bloodboneandghosts on Substack. They asked some hard hitting questions. Check the 🔗

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October 15, 2025 at 8:29 PM

Franceasca

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About A Girl : CH 2 “Heaven Help Me For The Way I Am”

A coming-of-age story that’s equal parts grit and ache.

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About A Girl

October 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM

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The Kinky Side - Bonus CH 10
🔗 Read Excerpts of Shameless Memories now on Blood, Bone & Ghosts — and tell me in the comments: what’s the memory your body refuses to forget?

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Bonus Ch 10 Then Kinky Side Excerpts of Shameless Memories now on Blood, Bone & Ghosts — and tell me in the comments: what’s the memory your body refuses to forget?

September 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM

Franceasca

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The Kinky Side - Bonus CH 10
🔗 Read Excerpts of Shameless Memories now on Blood, Bone & Ghosts — and tell me in the comments: what’s the memory your body refuses to forget?

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Bonus Ch 10 Then Kinky Side Excerpts of Shameless Memories now on Blood, Bone & Ghosts — and tell me in the comments: what’s the memory your body refuses to forget?

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September 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM

Franceasca

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#filmmakers #cinephiles #writers #directors #producers #Scorsese #goodfellas LISTEN UP!

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September 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM

Franceasca

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Harnessing your Inner Priestess with Safyra

A mystic healer’s path through movement, hypnosis, and sacred femininity. From qigong to tantra, this episode of Sex, Magick and Dessert opens the door into embodied power and the rituals that shape B...

A City Fights Back: How LA Defends Itself From ICE

September 6, 2025 at 4:48 AM

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A City Fights Back: How LA Defends Itself From ICE youtu.be/e9lRq9nfevs?... via @YouTube

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September 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM

Franceasca

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I had reached a point where I simply lacked the emotional capacity, the mental space, or the sheer willpower to navigate the complexities, the agonizing uncertainties…

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Ten Minutes Between Almost and Never Again.

Nine minutes to fall in love. Ten minutes to miss the goodbye. He said he loved me — not to me, but to my friend. I never heard those words, never saw his face when he said them.This is Chapter 9 of T...

He told me he wished he could undo everything. His voice shook, remorse flooding through the cracks he’d tried to seal for years. The confession was raw, trembling, almost enough. Almost.What never ca...

September 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM

Franceasca

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The words "I love you," the core of the reconciliation I'd so desperately wanted, left me in a bittersweet state, always remembering the "post-script" that never arrived.”

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"Fragments of Love, Shards of Goodbye” Chapter 7 of The Night We Locked Eyes is a collision of desire, truth, and the quiet space where love lingers even when the ending is inevitable.

August 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM

Franceasca

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“All That Is Broken —Fragments Of Love, Shards of Goodbye” CH 7

No one warns you about the in-between, when they come back just long enough to remind you why you fell.

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#writingcommunity #lovestory #relationships

All That Is Broken

August 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM

Franceasca

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“Sometimes the last dance is the one you take alone.“

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“Sometimes the last dance is the one you take alone.“

State of the Art with Victor Wilde

August 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM

Franceasca

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Victor Wilde,performance artist turned fashion disruptor—founded The Bohemian Society to make fashion that provokes, moves & tells stories you can wear. From Tokyo to LA, his work is as unapologetic as the city he calls home.

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Victor Wilde—performance artist turned fashion disruptor—founded The Bohemian Society to make fashion that provokes, moves, and tells stories you can wear. From Tokyo to LA, his work is as unapologeti...

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August 13, 2025 at 9:09 PM

Franceasca

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I believe in sensitive and kind men. I believe in the mystical men who believe in themselves. I believe in men who seek temperance and peace inside them. I believe in men poets, dreamers, magicians...

I imagined him walking in, only to feel the void swallow that hope when I saw the empty seat. The Night We Locked Eyes | Excerpt. Ch 6

August 13, 2025 at 7:47 AM

Franceasca

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Last Dance, Last Chance. Ch6 - The Night We Locked Eyes

Some people will say all the right things…Until the moment comes for them to actually show up.

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Last Chance, Last Dance