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Articles by Marla Taviano
A public reckoning with her past
Quick housekeeping note: I have my first book event, a “pre-launch,” today, September 10 at 7 pm in Minneapolis at Moon Palace Books, in conversation with Rev. Angela Denker, author of Disciples of White Jesus.
Worried about the wrong "f" word
Hello and welcome to Healing is my Special Interest, the newsletter at the intersection of late-diagnosed neurodivergence and healing from high control environments. Today we have a DELIGHTFUL post by a delightful person — the one and only Marla Taviano. I love how she uses poems and humor to get straight to the point and to deconstruct all the ways that oppressive systems silence us by calling for appeals to civility.
Mom
Hello and welcome to Healing is My Special Interest, the newsletter at the intersection of late-diagnosed neurodivergence and healing from high-control religion. Today’s post is a bit nerve-wracking because I don’t often write poetry, but June is a month for being brave, right? Thank you to everyone who supports this little newsletter, it means the world to me.We’d love to have you join us in this amazing community! If you didn’t love being called mom so much Would you only go by they/them?
Blackout Poetry About the Theology of Our Periods is the Spiritual Practice for Women's History Month
Blackout poetry is a spiritual practice. There are few other mediums allowing us to take the words that tried to hurt us and transform them into a life-giving invocation. Call it redemption. Call it alchemy. Whatever you choose to name it, do so in reverence of how we are healing. This month my friends and shared their blackout poetry. I felt this sense of solidarity with them as I read how they used a sharpie marker on hurtful books to reject a narrative and reclaim ourselves.
My poetic homeboy, J-Edwards
Once upon a time I was a high school English teacher. Actually, let’s clarify that point: straight out of college, at the ripe age of twenty-two, I was a high school English teacher to sixteen and seventeen-year olds. My principal at the time believed it wasn’t in the best interest of the students, the parents and me to realize my actual youth. So, while I made personal efforts to ensure no student ever stole a glance at my license, she and I extended my age by a handful of years.
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When my friend Micha told me her friend Adam’s book was the favorite book she read in 2022, I took her words with a grain of salt and simultaneously added the title to my to-read list. Part of me feels like I’m back on the elementary school playground, playing a game of telephone, but it was like the words Micha whispered in my ear came true: Adam’s book did end up being one of my favorite books too. So, the book.
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Occasionally, other writers pop into my social media that make me squint my eyes and tilt my head to the side. It’s like a C+C Music Factory, “Things that Make You Go Hmmm…” type of moment if you catch my early 90s drift. Such was the case with writer , author of Orphaned Believers. I had a feeling she and I were going to get along, both in the ways we see the world and in how we pen words in response.
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