Nicki Bratton

Tag: reclaiming power

  • Music Monday: Analysis of Psycho Path

    Some songs aren’t meant to be gentle.Some songs exist to look you dead in the eye and refuse to apologize. Before we get into it, here’s how this post works. These lyrics are read without context—no backstory, no personal history, no explanation of who or what inspired them. Just the song as it exists on…

  • Not All Attention Is Flattering: A Spell for the Girls Who’ve Been Followed

    🎬 Freshman Year, New Script? Freshman year. New school.Fresh start… right? I was kind. I always am. ✨But sometimes, kindness gets mistaken for consent. Or worse—invitation. 👤 The Shadow I Didn’t Cast There was a boy.Not a classmate. Not a crush. Just someone I was polite to. And he latched on like a shadow. He…

  • 🖤 School Sucked. Except When It Didn’t.

    A Spell of Survival from a Former Target 🎭 Before the Curtain Fell I was aware of bullying before I was ever bullied.The summer before 5th grade, I even wrote a little play about it. My teacher had this charming marionette theater in her classroom, and I was absolutely enchanted watching older students put on…