Matterings by Mads Hanger Grummet
Most of us sleepwalk through our days and only learn what really matters once it's gone. Matterings is my small rebellion against that, and your reminder to memento mori. One life. Use it. Thanks for joining me here.
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We spent our twenties trying not to get pregnant. So come on, fellas, where are you? (opens the original)
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Do we need to break our bones to belong? The ‘snatched waist’ is the next frontier in the war on women’s bodies. (opens the original)
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I’m finding it hard to breathe right now. There is a cosmetic surgery trending on social media in which a woman’s lower ribs are fractured and pushed inward to narrow her waist, after which she wears a corset-style waist trainer for two months to hold the new shape.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YBFm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c3b3e85-bf63-4fb9-9f1c-a5
Human Cogs Podcast Ep 96. Claire Tonti on birth trauma, becoming a Mum and matrescence. (opens the original)
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LISTEN WHEREVER YOU GET YOUR PODCASTSWe have a word for almost everything these days. But the most remarkable transformation a human body and brain can go through - the one that neuroscientists are now calling the biggest neuroendocrine event of the human lifespan - most of us can’t name at all.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4ghE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fs
Ep 96 Claire Tonti on birth trauma, becoming a Mum and matrescence. (opens the original)
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We have a word for almost everything these days. But the most remarkable transformation a human body and brain can go through - the one that neuroscientists are now calling the biggest neuroendocrine event of the human lifespan - most of us can't name at all.The word is MATRESCENCE. It describes the passage into motherhood, and if you've never heard it until now, that's part of the whole wicked problem.'Matrescence' was coined in 1973 by the anthropologist Dana Raphael, the same woman who gave u
Tell your daughters about choking before the algorithm does. (opens the original)
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As a Mum of four girls, I never planned to talk to my daughters about sexual strangulation. But these past days the choice was taken out of my hands.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1464" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iX5t!,w
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