I Was Meant to Be An Arrow

CC image courtesy of Flickr, Grufnik. Editorial note: The following is reprinted with permission from Kierstyn Darkwater’s blog. It was originally published on July 12, 2016. We would scoff at the idea that people wanted to have well-rounded educated children. I was meant to be an arrow to pierce the darkness and pop all the well-rounded bubbles. << actually a thing that was said. I

When God Wrote My Love Story, Part Five

“Don’t give your autonomy to other people because ‘authority’. Only you know what’s best for you.”

When God Wrote My Love Story, Part Four

“Finally we were alone and had privacy and could just fucking be.”

When God Wrote My Love Story, Part Three

“My parents, having broken us up, left me to pick up the pieces”

When God Wrote My Love Story, Part Two

“We started courting (marionette dating) when I was 16 and he was 18, my mom heard wedding bells immediately.”

When God Wrote My Love Story, Part One

“Alex learned things weren’t sunshine and rainbows with my family.”

Child Marriage: I Dodged the Bullet

Ever since I can remember, my mom really really really wanted to be pregnant at the same time as me.

Teenagers Taking Over the World: Kierstyn King’s Thoughts

“NCFCA and TeenPact were ideologically very similar to me — in some ways, almost extensions of each other. That could be because I was in NCFCA before TeenPact and a lot of the things I learned in NCFCA, TeenPact also tried to teach and hone.”

TeenPacters Speak Up: Part Eleven, TeenPact Needs Integrity, Not Money

“In 2010, an ethics complaint was made, partially regarding the amount of involvement TeenPact and TeenPact Students had during the election in question. ‘Student Project’ is the name that was given to the campaigns Tim Echols (and others involved with his organisation, albeit with his blessing) decided his students should support.”

TeenPacters Speak Up: Part Ten, TeenPact and Relationships

“Tim Echols turned his attention to women, he singled us out and spent far too long on another tirade. He talked about how we need to grow up and get married (fast! young!) so we can start breeding an army, because that is what we women are supposed to do. Our job in life, our job to further the cause, is to create more people.”