Renee Ruin

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Medication Shaming and the Damage Done



This poem is about female anger and its dismissiveness and undesirable-ness in the male gaze. The misogyny and the dichotomy of power. Strength, power , femininity and reclamation.

I’ve spoken about this topic with many female friends, that is, the trauma that is a bff breakup. We’ve all had one, whether it ended dramatically or just kind of drifted off and disappeared. There’s an intense feeling of betrayal and deep sadness and conflicted emotions when a female friendship ends. You remember these breakups forever, not that you don’t forget all your relationship breaks ups but a bff breakup ...

A poem about sexuality, misogyny, the dichotomy of power in sex and the self loathing and power a woman feels but the claw marks she carries with her. Strength, power, femininity and fragility.

From someone who lives with it.
So you’ve seen Single White Female, Fatal Attraction and Girl, Interrupted and you think you’re totally clued in on what BPD (Borderline Personality Disorder) is all about.
WRONG. Of all the possible mental illnesses and particularly ones found more commonly in women, BPD is often the most stigmatized, dramatized and demonized.
I was officially diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder in 2008 when I was 28 years old, after much reluctance and avoidance of...

A love letter to Elizabeth Wurtzel and a date with my depression.

DARK SIDE OF THE WOMB : This is my story and cautionary tale on cervical health

Author Media Press Kit for Australian Author Jo Jette

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It was Los Angeles, Summer 2011. I had either been on my way to or from a late dinner at Swingers Diner with alt porn aficionado and creator of Vivid Alt, Eon McKai when he told me we just needed to drop in to Dave Naz's house for a second. Of course I was well aware of Dave's photography work and film creations for Vivid Alt and was excited to meet him in person. One of the things I walked away from after meeting Dave and his ex-pornstar wife Ori (aka Ashley Blue) was the affirmation of the ...

WOUNDS Volume 1
Original writing, musings and prose by Renee Ruin
Cover features original artwork by Heather Gabel

"Renee Ruin observes the bad and the beautiful in 'Wounds: Volume One' a collection of evocative and eloquent poetry that will haunt you until you pick it up again."
"Each poem of Wounds remains untitled, unnamed, but belonging, mirroring each colliding content o ...more

All over the internet and across social networking sites there is a plethora of tributes, memories and stories being shared in tribute to the death of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana who took his life on April 5th 1994. It was a shot that was heard right around the world and marked the end of what was deemed the Grunge generation.
I was 12 years old when I first heard Nirvana. I had heard some songs off Bleach through a high school friend and the first few bass lines in Blew hit me like a...

Based in Los Angeles, CELESTE XXX is a dark wave musician with shock value and dark feminine tones to her music and performances. Often explosive and unapologetic, she experiments with realms of her personality with hints of inspiration from cult horror films and deities. She leaks her on stage persona into the transformation of the face through makeup artistry exploring the avant garde.
Her vocals whilst sultry and full of sass, pack a dark synth-pop punch to the hips whilst delivering unaba...

To call you multi-faceted is an understatement. You have a robust background in art, illustration & drawing, design, print making and of course photography. How did your vision evolve towards the photographic medium as your focus?
My abilities with various mediums emerged more or less like a reflex, with one interest leading into the next without much conscious thought about a bigger picture; creativity is mysterious, its difficult to explain. Photography is definitely the focus of what I’m c...