For anyone experiencing grief from loss... The fetus inside me, my potential daughter, was diagnosed XXX from a tissue sample taken during an amniocentesis my 14th week of pregnancy. We’d named her Sierra, since she made it past the first trimester, after losing two of the triplets in utero the first month. I’d had three … Continue reading Reaching Acceptance
“You are so beautiful, my baby. Once you slim down boys will notice and you’ll get as many dates as you want,” my mother promised me in her kitchen when I was 16, her response to my crying to her how lonely I felt with no one asking me out. “I guarantee you, you’ll have your pick … Continue reading An Inconvenient Truth About Men and Women
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7kdkuLerWA3NCGdpN7kZle?si=xgGVFCpWQq2b34-Wpm0mog My father raised me to believe my mother was ignorant. “Your mother, (implying like most women) is irrational. Fickle. Full of love and lightness, but not really a [deep] thinker.” All women were (are) not as… capable as men, according to my father, as the woman’s primary job— her role in society of mom, caretaker, homemaker— isn't like a … Continue reading How to End SEXISM
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5G6TXQ0St7n3bbNkZqilUa?si=HkJNU1PnSEGq8Qq_gUiaAw I was 16 weeks pregnant, with my first baby, when the results of an amnio told me that the wanted child I was carrying was not healthy. I have always been pro-choice, and never considered it a moral dilemma to terminate a fetus with severe Down’s Syndrome, or other life threatening, or debilitating abnormalities. … Continue reading Abortion and Choice
