d.g. ladelfa
"Crying in full public display of others isn't a sign of weakness, it is the loud, ugly admission of one's private truths in public, an ownership of one's emotional vulnerability in spaces made uncomfortable by authenticity. If stoicism is silence, then the crybaby is a warrior, as cowardice knows nothing of confession."
D.G. LaDelfa
About
Born and raised in New York, D.G. LaDelfa graduated with High Latin Honors in Sociology, American Studies from the State University of New York at Geneseo in 2011 and graduated from Columbia College with a post-baccalaureate in Education. D.G. taught Information Sciences at San Jose State University for several years; quickly changing career paths at the start of the SARS2COV19 pandemic from education to allied health sciences. D.G. LaDelfa relocated to the Southeastern U.S. during clinical residency, permanently settling in Georgia.
D.G. LaDelfa is currently working as a Death Doula in Central Georgia; she resides with her rescue feline and American Black Laborador and spends her free time working in her garden or reflecting on the urgencies of life and faith, comfort in death, and all of its implications on one's soul in-between. D.G. LaDelfa is a practicing Orthodox Catholic and reflects on her return to the Catholic faith catalyzed by her traumatic, near-death experience.
INGENUE KITSCH
INGENUE KITSCH refers to the artistry of D.G. LaDelfa and the collection of self-published literature and reflective essays that transform the boundaries of authentic creativity with the transparency of the self. Self-described as a "curator of the confessional," INGENUE KITSCH utilizes sensitive and confessional topics with unhinged expression with free-form prose. INGENUE KITSCH unabashedly demonstrates the transitions of one's subjective life that occur with time, and so does one's objective understanding of its community. Survival of the empath in a society made ill by tragedy is the key to curing a community; INGENUE KITSCH uncovers the commonalities of resiliency, sarcasm, and humor in death with the originality and rawness of the pain and suffering endured throughout life.
