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✍️ #PrideOnThePage Finale: CELEBRATION (June 29-30)

Join my fun & free 30-day Pride Month journey to explore voice, identity, and belonging—together. 🏳️‍🌈

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Jun 29, 2025
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"Pride is about being proud of who we are, regardless of sex, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation. I should not be necessary to celebrate pride, as all human beings are both unique and created from the same."
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Wild Lion*esses Pride by Jay

👑🏡 Final Days: Reflection and Celebration (June 29–30)

We close with a crown and a key.

These last two prompts—Crown and Home—aren’t just endings. They’re openings. They mark return. Reclamation. That breath you take when you realize you’ve made it through something.

This final chapter is for naming what you’ve claimed, and honoring what now feels like belonging.

No explanations needed.
No permission required.

You’ve earned this moment.

Every thread you’ve followed.
Every silence you wrote into shape.
Every truth you touched—quiet or bright—brought you here.

And now: you choose what to carry forward.


🏡 Final Days: Reflection and Celebration

Crown + Home
We close with naming and return. These final prompts invite you to speak from the center of who you are. To claim. To welcome. To arrive. You’ve written through roots, resistance, love, becoming—now write from what you know.

#prideonthepage June 29 2025 Creative Challenge Week5start
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#PrideOnThePage Day 29 (June 29): CROWN

✨Crown yourself. No explanation needed.✨

  • What truth do you carry that feels earned, chosen, alive?

  • This prompt asks you to write from a place of sovereignty.

  • Not permission, not performance. Just presence.

  • Let the poem wear what fits. Let it shine because it does.

Be unabashedly you. You are worth it.


#PrideOnThePage Day 30 (June 30): HOME - OUR LAST DAY!

✨Create something that opens the door and calls itself home.✨

Where do you feel most fully yourself—held, honest, and whole?

Home may live in a person, a practice, a memory, or a word. This final prompt invites you to return—to the place you recognize from the inside out.

Let the door open. Let yourself in. Get comfortable in that space. And please continue to share any answeres that arrive after today for withever prompt.

#prideonthepage June 30 2025 Creative Challenge End
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A very big Thank You to all these brilliant creators who have responded with layered, moving reflections:

DIANA ADMIRE
Kris Winters
Jude Jones (they/them)
Lady Libertea
Leeron Heywood
Tess McCarthy
Wendi Gordon
Lily Pond
Rey Somatics
Robin Taylor (he/him)
Sunbeamdream
Lee Summers
Bo Ea
WilM
Jade Matias Uchoa
Darienne
Jeannie Ewing
Cassandra Speaks
Thérèse Ralston
Laura Hays
Love
Louise Haynes
Gloria Horton-Young
Francesca Bossert
Dawn Roe
Andy Beth
Deborah T. Hewitt
WayneT
Jules
Lisa Bolin 🌸
Mesa Fama
Constellations In Her Bones
Jessica Letteney
Silke Kristin Juelich❁summer
Prajna O'Hara


Return the Challenge whenever you like

Please find attached the PDF with the whole challenge and free space for your reflections.

#prideonthepage June 2025 Creative Challenge
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Visit the #PrideOnThePage-Hub and the respective Essay:

  • 🫚 Week 1: Rooted (Foundations of Self) (was June 1-7)

  • 🛡️ Week 2: Resistance (Power, Protest, and Survival) (Runs June 8 -14)

  • 💗 Week 3: Love (Connection, Intimacy, Chosen Family)(Runs June 15-21)

  • 🌈 Week 4: Becoming (Joy, Vision, and Liberation) (Runs June 22-28)

  • 🏡 Final Days: Reflection and Celebration (Run June 29 and 30)

✨ What Becomes of It

And now, you hold something.

Maybe it’s thirty sparks.
Maybe it’s one voice that wouldn’t stay quiet.
Maybe it’s a shape your truth had been waiting to take.

What you’ve written might become:

  • a stitched poem

  • a reimagined About page

  • a manifesto for the self you’re becoming

  • a quiet archive of your inner landscape

Or maybe it stays just for you. Private. Whole. Untamed.

That counts, too.

What matters is that you showed up.
That you listened.
That you let something move through you.

That you wrote.

Thank you for walking this path with me.


✨ Why This Matters

Writing is an opening.
Not only into ourselves—but toward one another.

This challenge has always been about what happens when we choose curiosity over certainty.
When we listen instead of label.
When we open the door instead of guarding it.

You didn’t need credentials.
Or a label.
Or clarity.

You just needed to begin.

So bring your questions.
Bring your tenderness.
Bring your voice.

Let’s keep putting pride on the page—together.

With deep gratitude,
Jay 🏳️‍🌈✍️


💚 If This Moved You

If you found a truth in these prompts—if this journey has made space for something that matters—consider supporting the work that holds it.

Wild Lion*esses Lookout is a living studio:
a space for poetry, photography, digital art, and queer reflection.
It’s also a space for care-based consulting, editing, and ghostwriting—rooted in lived experience and radical presence.

Your support keeps this work alive, independent, and honest.
It helps me keep creating. It helps me stay.

Ways to support:

  • Tap the ❤️ if you read something that moved you—it helps others discover this space.

  • Share this page with someone else on a path of becoming.

  • Leave a Comment below and leave a kind word or share your offering to us on this challenge—I read them all, and they matter more than you know.

  • Become a free subscriber to stay connected to future offerings.

  • Send a one-time donation— or Buy us a coffee every coffee or bowl of Monty’s food is deeply felt.

  • Become a paid subscriber for $10/month to sustain the work. You can explore the About page for more.

Since early 2024, I’ve been navigating the edges of mental health, medical leave, and financial precarity. As I wrote in When Healing Means Losing Everything, I’m in the midst of building something new from almost nothing. This space, and your presence in it, is part of that rebuilding.


🐾 A Note from Monty

Hi. It’s me. Monty.
I’ve been supervising from the keyboard (as you can imagine, I’m very helpful). And I just wanted to say—you did it.

You showed up.
You made room for your truth.
You dared to write something into the world that hadn’t existed before.

That’s a kind of magic.

If Jay’s work meant something to you—if you felt seen, heard, nudged, or nourished—consider leaving a little love behind. A tap, a tip, a share, a thank-you.

It keeps this space soft, creative, alive.
It keeps Jay writing.
It keeps me purring and fed. 🐟

You’re part of this now.
And we’re so glad you’re here.

With a head tilt and a soft paw,
Monty 🐾💚

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