steady up girl {you are way better than this}

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Grief + Healing, Poetry + Verse

this is an ode to the broken-hearted. for those early days when the ground is unsteady and you are still measuring your worth by their absence instead of the staggering truth of your own presence. this is a poem to hold you until you are steady enough to hold...

A letter to my queer family // Pulse Orlando

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Grief + Healing, Poetry + Verse

It has been one month since the massacre at Pulse Orlando. One month that has seen more death and devastation and violence than I can possible process. One month of communities ripped apart, here and abroad. One month of divisiveness and unimaginable pain and the...

Sometimes dancing is where the revolution is born

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Sovereignty + Freedom

Yesterday, I was reading about the recent anti-LGBTQ legislation passed in North Carolina. As an out, vocal and proud Queer woman – this news cuts me to my soul. As much as I would love to say I’ve reached a place where it can’t touch me, that would...

always, always, begin again

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Poetry + Verse

It is all going to crash down you know everything brick by brick glass shattered foundations crumbled there is no way to save this. there is no way to save this. the ending was written long before you ever heard the tentative starting notes no last ditch efforts no...

poem for the world

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Poetry + Verse

listen, you, with your beach glass heart you, with your moonshine teardrops this is a poem for the world and this is only a poem for you both of those things are true and neither, really but either way you, love are holy so, hold your capacity for melancholy and name...