The Pain of Not Skating: Mother’s Day 2021

Let’s pretend for a moment. Let’s pretend that there is a Roller Skater’s Day.  Every year, stores are flooded with Roller Skater’s Day cards, and roller skate pastries, and roller skate deals on skating themed jewelry.   And let’s pretend that we live in a society where one’s status as a roller skater is SUPER important. ...

Beautiful Skin

Healing is seeing the systems of oppression we exist within and opting out of them as a designing force in our own understandings of the world.

This Is A Story About Us

This story still feels so tender. I have struggled with every word in its telling: it aches like a wound starting to heal and I want to hold it close to my chest. To protect it. It feels hard to send it out into the world. It isn’t a happy “we helped people vote” story....

Uterus Confetti

For my birthday a few years ago, my sister gave me a tote bag with multicolored uteruses printed all over it.  “Uterus Confetti,” the pattern was called.  I used this bag proudly for many years: when teaching the Our Whole Lives curriculum at my church, at the grocery store, when going to doctors appointments.  People...

This Body Holy

This poem has had roughly 155 different titles...but I think this is the one I like. For today, anyway. CN: sexual assault This Body Holy When women lament their stomachs, their thighs, their arms, their right big toe – this body rises, indignant. This body balks at diet plans. She will not discuss weight loss...

Outline on the History of Women

Title: Female rage, or Why women are angry. Acknowledgements: The author would like to acknowledge the change she has not yet seen and the perspective she does not have. Dedication: There are so many people to thank for getting us to this point and so many still holding us back. Introduction: We ask, rhetorically, how...