It Was Never the Skirt
Rape survived modesty, long dresses, petticoats, church clothes, marriage vows, family reputations, and every era that pretended women could dress their way into safety.
Rape survived modesty, long dresses, petticoats, church clothes, marriage vows, family reputations, and every era that pretended women could dress their way into safety.
Not every erasure arrives as a ban. Sometimes it arrives as silence, lowered reach, invisible suspicion, and the slow training of a woman to soften herself.
On streaming, inherited nostalgia, and the strange danger of beautiful surfaces
A small essay on gratitude, independence, curiosity, and why writing needs somewhere safe to stay.
On Mother’s Day, I think about my mother not only as the woman who raised me, but as a daughter shaped by daughters before her.
Some people do not object to your thinking because it is excessive. They object because it has started connecting the moments they needed you to keep separate.
In a culture that can imitate sincerity beautifully, I no longer trust the performance of authenticity. I trust memory, boundaries, and what remains over time.
O sociálnej únave, vine z nedostupnosti a vzťahoch, ktoré vedia uniesť aj našu menšiu kapacitu.
Soon we will not pay for luxury. We will pay for the basic conditions of feeling human.
O mužoch, ktorí obdivujú ženskú sebavedomosť iba dovtedy, kým sa neobráti proti ich vlastnej istote.
We inherited more freedom than almost any generation before us, and somehow learned to explain our avoidance so beautifully that it almost looks like wisdom.
proving that absence can still hold a kind of presence