HeyJaredEssays from a Global Mama
Essays at the intersection of motherhood, feminism, and global injustice, written with honesty, heat, and heart.
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Vulnerable (opens the original)
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It wasn’t what they took that destroyed me. It was realizing what they saw.At 3 a.m., exactly 12 hours after the incident, I was reading online about how these groups operate. They work first to “identificar a una persona vulnerable”—“identify a vulnerable person”—before working together to distract, extract, and disappear.Identificar a alguien vulnerable.I was identified as vulnerable.I was vulnerable.Am vulnerable.And this is what hurts most. Because I am. God damnit, I am at my most vulnerabl
The Less (opens the original)
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Substack has carved out a funny place in the modern world of life writing. The perspectives, the experiences, the ideas, written in the form of memoirs, personal essays, blogs, and endless reflections scrolling through our feeds. It is a place where your ego, your very existence, can display itself in the digital universe.You are seen. You are heard. Your perspective counts.Or at least that is what it feels like in our muddy consciousness.All digital platforms do it in different ways. On Substac
The city that knows how to love Argentina (opens the original)
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It was blistering hot. Disgusting. It wasn’t just the sweat pouring down my forehead, seeping through my shirt and into the cloth of the cheap car seats. It was the heat inside my head. I could feel the blood rise and expand, destroying the functioning parts of my brain.The girls in the backseat had it better. Window shades and the wind blasting through our front-seat windows helped cool them off. Our precious Nina was fast asleep in her car seat, excited for the Messi party to come, and our dea
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