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"So much of the reason I decided to be so crudely honest about my internalized sexism was I had to be the example I wanted to see".
I was fighting the homophobia in my own family and my internalized homophobia, and I was running scared from the AIDS crisis.
Gaining such insights will answer key questions, such as: Do I know what my internalized beliefs are and what they mean?
My internalized mindset was interfering with my getting stronger.
However, my inner experience of unconditional love was greater than my internalized homophobia.
I thought I head dealt with my internalized homophobia when I came out years before.
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Then I started thinking of how my own internalized self-hatred dictated the way I lived my life: my desire to date white men, my desire and need to wear non-threatening clothing, my dislike of tattoos and piercings, my straight-edge mentality.
Confessions of a Jewish Wagnerite is a personal memoir of my recognition of the psychological and moral troubledness of my own Wagnerism, bound up, as I discovered it to be, with my own internalized anti-Semitism, within greater concerns about the cult of Wagner and its influence on cutlure, society and politics.
Whatever the title and however ongoing my story, there was something about the contiguity of my being a Jewish Wagnerite in the throes of a burgeoning awareness of my own internalized anti-Semitism, amidst a global resurgence of anti-Semitism and the unfolding of the AIDS epidemic, that seemed synchronicitous, and still does.
"I came in here with my own internalized homophobia".
It opened me up to my own internalized shame like no other novel ever had before.
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