Not Yana
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Not Yana
Hi baby girl, I began thinking of all the things I want to share with you once you are born. All of them ate a kut your dad. I can't seem to wait for us three to share moments together.
From the moment I was pregnant, I didn’t just feel different. I was different. I am different. On a cellular level. I would never be singular again.
You deserve pain and suffering since you got yourself pregnant. That is your fault. Even more grim, is somethng deeply entrenched in me believes it.
My body is now governed by the Hospital Authority now that I am pregnant. Even if I give birth in Mathilda, then I would be governed by their profits. This has always been the case, fo women's bodies. Pregnant or not. But I've never hone through anything ao political until pregnancy.
aren’t we willed into existence by the things we pay attention to?
-ankita shah
Yet, because short-term advantages are often the only ones visible to the powerless, we, too, have played our parts in continuing this subversion.
it was my daughter’s love that freed me from my delusions of grandeur. It liberated me from the tyranny of trying to prove myself. Since her birth, I feel calmer and more secure. I have a sense of security I haven’t felt since I was a young child, living with parents who unconditionally loved me. Now, I care less about what other people think of... See more
The birth of my first child, after the maelstrom passed, was a deliverance. It brought me closer to my real self. I have learned how to surrender when I need to. I am learning to live in the rhythm of other lives; I have learned to share my life.
Lucy Jones • Matrescence
"It’s so strange how we’re able to carry forward this mystery of personal identity even when our present selves are so different from our future selves and from our past selves most of all. I think a lot about this question of, what is a person? Am I the same person as my childhood self? Sure, we share the same body, but even that body is so... See more