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Lara Margaret Marjerrison

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Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction

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LARA MARGARET MARJERRISON (elemem) is a queer, multidisciplinary artist with a vision of impacting the world around her through the transformative power of visual art and storytelling. She spends her days writing poetry and prose, dabbling in photography, and playing with paint, bringing to life her inside stories.

Passionately motivated by social justice and on a never-ending quest of personal evolution, Lara is a freedom fighter on a mission to liberate the voiceless, beaten down, and bound. Lara views art as a bridge between people and a means of reaching beyond her own limitations. Through her workshops, talks, poetry, and performance, she helps people tap into the unlimited power of words to heal from harm so they can show up as their ...more

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"Life takes guts. I love your guts."

"It's a big responsibility, living."

My mum said that.

And it stuck.

Firstly, because she was the one to say it. My mum isn’t known for her love of tough conversations. Small talk she can do. But for her to go deep like this, to risk opening the conversation up to the stuff that she’d usually avoid like a hot coal on bare hands was a huge deal.

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Don't Let the Forest In (Don't Let The Forest In, #1)

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Becoming the Vision: The Transformational Power of Vision to Heal, Awaken, and Become Who You Were Meant to Be

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