But because of the way my life has unfolded and what happened with my kid's dad and having to raise them and support them and just generally my personality, I guess if I had to classify it in a lot of ways, I seemed more like a man in that I provided, I protected, I had to strategize. I was analytic. But I also felt very nurturing and caring and creative and soft both as a mother and as a partner or a woman. So this whole topic fascinates me
Erika Brooke
@Afterlife · 0:53
And I love our banter because if I accidentally called the wrong name or as I was getting used to it or switching back and forth there's so much grace of it doesn't matter. His or her expression is just to be loved and received, not necessarily analyzed or categorized and properly addressed. Knowing that my heart loves him or her
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:10
Eric, I wanted to welcome you and to thank you for just the generosity of your spirit and telling your story. And you're just imbued with a lot of curiosity and openness, which is so expansive, and it just helps us all be more human when we're exposed to it. Which is one of the things I love, when we listen to each other here
Wren .
@aBirdieOnaWire · 5:00
And the reason we do that is to or that society has done that is to enforce things surrounding gender, gender roles, gender stereotypes, gender behavior, what is appropriate for certain genders, what behavior is appropriate, et cetera, et cetera. And if you do any study on gender theory and gender study, it typically points back to patriarchal societies and how anyway, I want to get into that
Erika Brooke
@Afterlife · 4:52
So I was like, oh. And then I related more often to men for whatever reasons. I don't know if it was personality, humor, and yet I didn't want to be one. I just wanted to express myself as such, as a soul, as an energy, and not so much in physically what I was wearing or how I looked. And that's where my heart is on the subject, to me, regardless
Wren .
@aBirdieOnaWire · 4:49
When you were trying to clarify about your view the nature of God or the nature of the divine and that it's your soul that is feeling the sort of masculine energy sometimes and combined with a feminine energy, although your soul is traveling inside this vessel that is that of a woman's, if I understand correctly. When you're talking about the divine God, the universe love, it's like this divine entity and there's a spark. The divine and everyone