Author: Chloe Mae
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The ‘P’ Word: Redefining and Reclaiming Power
Reclaiming personal power is not about domination, but cultivating disciplined agency within unjust systems. I offer a three-part framework for developing personal power grounded in responsibility, self-awareness, and embodied practice.
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gentle men don’t exist
The following is a somewhat poetic stream of thought resulting from a conversation I had with a man regarding his former childhood feelings of wanting and deserving to assault women for his own sexual gratification. He expressed that his lack of female attention made him want to kill. It made me wonder, how many of…
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Black Eyes, Open Mouth
Seeing Black Eyes play live, crowds as shared bodies, deindividuation, and healing the angry teen
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one beast, many faces
Who will protect you when the world burns down?When the king wants to lock you up do you hang your head and waltz to the gallows?When the magistrates tax you on the oxygen you breathe, will you teach yourself to suffocate?When Saturn carnages your kin, do you bear him more souls to feed?When they come…
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collecting the winter self
Smoke billows from my chimney and I wonder if it feels good to be a gaseous mass of heat and carbon released into the cold winter air. I witness a pillow of snow on a tree branch receive its final snowflake releasing it to the ground below. I wonder how light it must feel. When heat…
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What makes a Warrior? Lessons from Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda (2/2)
This is part two of my book review on Carlos Castaneda’s Journey to Ixtlan: Lessons from Don Juan. You can read part 1 “What Makes a Hunter” here. Journey to Ixtlan is Carlos’ third book in his 4 book series. Though widely regarded as anthropological fiction, the books were published as non-fiction memoirs that detailed…
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What Makes a Hunter – Lessons from Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda (1/2)
There are many ways of knowing the world, interacting with it, and participating in it. On his way to understanding sorcery and “separate realities”, Castaneda learns to understand the ways of the hunter and warrior. This book and its lessons are for anyone interacting with the hidden realities and forces of nature; the people who listen…
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Equestrian B*tch- lessons from the barrel races for 2026: year of the fire horse
How I’m embracing the year of the fire horse as the year of the feral and faithful. I’m starting this off with two of my formative stories surrounding The Chinese Zodiac. The first one takes place in my first grade classroom. The boy I had a crush on and one of my friends were both…
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