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Our social justice blog, Yopp, was created be a resource for the overarching principles of social justice, to create connections between the different branches of activism, and to maintain a platform for other marginalized writers. These resources are all available for free, and as such, our work is largely unpaid. 

By investing in Yopp, you are supporting and enabling the education of future activists who can’t pay for it elsewhere. You are helping keep this content free and accessible to everyone. You are enabling us to offer you the best version of our work that we have.

Starting at just $1 a month, you’ll get access to bonus content, behind the scenes info about our creative projects, and the ability to vote on future article topics. 

Join Our Patreon!

DID REsources

Since we received our Dissociative Identity Disorder diagnosis in August of 2020, it’s been increasingly clear to us that sharing our experience and our knowledge of the disorder is valuable both to other systems in understanding themselves, and to people who were previously unfamiliar with the world of plurality and want to learn. 

Check out some of our favorite articles we’ve written below, or view all articles tagged with DID here: 

You can also check out our Youtube Channel where we post DID-related videos from time to time. 

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GlutenfreeNom.com

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This blog was created as an outlet for one of our favorite pastimes: Gluten-Free Baking. We stopped eating gluten at age 19 and soon after, discovered our passion for baking and formulating our own recipes. We worked at two gluten-free bakeries and originally had dreams of opening our own bakery before disability made that inaccessible. 

While we don’t update this blog very often, it contains a number of great gluten-free recipes, including our favorite Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies in the world, and a gluten-free pie crust that we swear by. In the future, it may also include reviews of gluten-free products that we want to highlight. 

Check Out Our Gluten-Free Blog

Youtube

Last year, we were asked to make a short video talking about what it’s like to live life as a DID system. We really enjoyed the project so we are occasionally adding videos about DID and related topics to our Youtube channel. 

Check out the Youtube videos we have up thus far!

 

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Social Media

Follow us on social media! We post regularly about our creative projects, articles, daily life, and lots and lots of cat photos. We are the most active on facebook and instagram. 

 

Interviews

Here is a list of our current history of interviews: 

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DJing

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We have been DJing for social dances, including Argentine Tango and Blues-Fusion, since 2011. We got our start DJing Bailonga, a weekly local tango event that we later took over organizing, and we became their primary DJ in 2013.  We became known for being able to DJ a wide variety of formats and styles but we specialized in what’s known as 50/50 alternative & traditional tango– a format that few people are experienced in, and a format that we’ve DJed in hundreds of times. 

In 2020, we created an online workshop to explore to teach others all the skills we’ve learned. In the workshop, we cover the basics of how to DJ traditional and alternative Tango music, the structure of a tango set, and how to build a tanda. It also covers:

  • Creating smooth transitions between traditional and alternative tandas
  • Identifying the primary movement of a song and using this information to find danceable alternative music
  • The overall shape of a tango set and the functionality of each tanda used to build it
  • The things that make a good DJ and why so many find Tango DJing just as addictive as the dance itself.

Check out our Online DJ Workshop

Music

For many years, our primary outlet for creativity was singing. We took voice lessons all through high school, spent most of our teenage years auditioning for and performing in musicals and choral performances, and even got accepted into music school at our local University. 

Our life took a different direction and since then, singing has taken a backseat to our other creative projects. However, we did create a handful of home-recordings of some of our favorite songs to sing at the time and published them on Soundcloud. 

You can listen to our old recordings here.

If we have any further music projects in the future, we’ll post about them here! 

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Digital Art

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Writing

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Activism

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Books

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