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I’d be a miserable mother (opens the original)
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I come from a line of women whose breasts hardly knew a break before the next child was on the way, their tiny mouth puckered into a perfect “O”.At 17 I lied and said I wished for five children when I grow up. At the time I didn’t know I was lying because I wasn’t. I was fully confident of this desire. But who was I fooling!I said: “I want my first child at the age of 26.” And here I am: 26 and no wish for a child, at least not a biological one, and at least for the foreseeable future (not count
Blue Heron: The desperate attempt to mend the past (opens the original)
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Blue Heron is for everyone who’s desperately trying to control time by documenting: whether it be journaling, photographing or collecting. In an interview, Sophy Romvari describes this to be one of the reasons for her filmmaking:A big part in why I’m a filmmaker is this desire to control my own narrative and have some sort of control over the difficult things that I’ve experienced, which is actually impossible but it gives the illusion of that. It makes me a very obsessive filmmaker, which I thi
Going to the beach as an ethnographical exercise of human bodies (opens the original)
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When you are born a daughter (opens the original)
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For most of my life, I believed I was bad at being a daughter. I was born a daughter, and I had failed at it. I didn’t know how that made sense. It’s like that one fish quote that says, “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” What if you were born a fish with shitty swimming? Would that make you less of a fish? <a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hLVb!,f_auto,q
All the books I've read this year (opens the original)
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I can’t believe we are seven months into 2026. Time keeps rushing, slipping away, but thankfully there are always books to look back on and look forward to. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="214" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tk08!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto
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