So much love for this piece! Can I say a wish? (OK, no...I want to say a wish.) I WISH that the world could hear you read this piece, too, since you are such an incredible reader. And/or maybe I also mean I am grateful that your voice is one I get to hear so profoundly on the page and off it. Also yes to recognizing the many ways we bomb in public and how as much as feminist folks are exhorted to love our bodies, we also can be totally on the outs with them (and the feeling is often mutual).
A wonderful piece! And of course I feel your pain, our pains are similar and different, and I love hearing you voice them. I need to listen to the ever so sage NBW and try to write about it/them more.
“Bodies unlike essays, novels, and movies, are often plotless. Some of us go for years trying to find out what is going on with our insides, and turn up nothing. There’s no big break through, no suprise ending or twist, and nothing really ever happens”
Puppets?? PUPPETS?!? OMG, YES PLEASE! Love you so much. Thank you for this beautiful Subby. And for trying all kinds of shit out at the DF. That's what we built it for. It feels validating to know that's part of how it exists for you.
I loved every moment of you up there and I loved your boldness to quit, it inspired me and many other people that night. Plus I was singing that Charlie Brown tune for at least a week after.
And thank you for naming the belly thing. It’s such a thing! The wish for it to be flat(ter) seems inextinguishable - maybe a spell that was once cast upon us??
You unpacking it takes some of the power of this spell away.
And I always love reading you, hearing your voice and seeing your cheeky smile in my mind’s eye and ear. 💗
So much love for this piece! Can I say a wish? (OK, no...I want to say a wish.) I WISH that the world could hear you read this piece, too, since you are such an incredible reader. And/or maybe I also mean I am grateful that your voice is one I get to hear so profoundly on the page and off it. Also yes to recognizing the many ways we bomb in public and how as much as feminist folks are exhorted to love our bodies, we also can be totally on the outs with them (and the feeling is often mutual).
This is brilliant and perfect just like you
A wonderful piece! And of course I feel your pain, our pains are similar and different, and I love hearing you voice them. I need to listen to the ever so sage NBW and try to write about it/them more.
I love this, love you, love your beautiful stomach, love your jokes, love your words, love your heart, love your wild genius!
This was one of my favorites!
“Bodies unlike essays, novels, and movies, are often plotless. Some of us go for years trying to find out what is going on with our insides, and turn up nothing. There’s no big break through, no suprise ending or twist, and nothing really ever happens”
Truth!
Puppets?? PUPPETS?!? OMG, YES PLEASE! Love you so much. Thank you for this beautiful Subby. And for trying all kinds of shit out at the DF. That's what we built it for. It feels validating to know that's part of how it exists for you.
Your Subby is always my favorite newsletter - this one hits hard <3
I loved every moment of you up there and I loved your boldness to quit, it inspired me and many other people that night. Plus I was singing that Charlie Brown tune for at least a week after.
And thank you for naming the belly thing. It’s such a thing! The wish for it to be flat(ter) seems inextinguishable - maybe a spell that was once cast upon us??
You unpacking it takes some of the power of this spell away.
And I always love reading you, hearing your voice and seeing your cheeky smile in my mind’s eye and ear. 💗