…the not joke of women choosing a bear to be caught in the woods with over a man isn’t a stretch when the men who are culturally trained to be vile abusers then painted as something harmless are turned loose on us in every generation
Mother’s Day 2024
Parenting is hard. Motherhood is extraordinarily hard when a whole culture is contorting itself to prove over and over and over again how little it cares about birthing people, will not fight for them and allows our basic rights to evaporate. And there’s so much you don’t see behind a social media post:
Signed up. Didn’t stick around. So proud.
You may have found this post through my new QR codes. Welcome. It’s long past time to stop domestic violence. I talk about my experience here and how heart wrenching it is to meet young women who experience it today. 2024. It has to stop.
The Serpent Queen
I write short reviews. This is a series to watch, enjoy and savor long after you watch the finale. It’s gorgeous to see and dark to know. Personally, I loved learning that Catherine didn’t kill herself in service to or out of despair of the patriarchy like so many characters fiction or not, seem forced to do. One that comes to mind is Elizabeth (Vicky Krieps) in Corsage, also the countless mothers who were either murdered or dead before a story even opens.
Focus
Focus. It’s something I haven’t had for years. My mind could not settle into staying with a task or a project or any long-term thing for so long. So now I’m learning to focus again.
Quiver
I wished their sky dark
Relentless with thunder
Endlessly silencing the sun
Hate Too
They say we teach men how to treat us. Too many times men teach us how to hate them.
She Never Warned Me
Foreign to the darkness painted over her heart’s door where she expected us both to stay
Home. For My Children.
Home is built precisely where our hearts beat. Rarely where it’s planned.
Estrangement is Fucking Hard
During this season of silence, with my own lived experience of not being in touch with my parents, but never cutting them out of my life, all while understanding Daughter needs to figure out who she is and heal from her own pain, I wish for anyone facing it; that it stops.