The Body Politic
Paid leave, politics, gender, and culture—politics as it relates to gender, bodies and the care of them, but also the belief that we are connected and must function together as a collective to create a thriving society.
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Not exactly another take on the Clancy trial. (opens the original)
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This essay isn’t really about Lindsay Clancy or her trial.This isn’t a defense or an indictment.This isn’t even just about postpartum.But it is about the ways we are failing and using mothers in America.Something about this family’s tragic story sparked something in many of us. A recognition, or a violent rejection. Whether as a mother you had good birth and postpartum care, or none at all, there is still often a recognition of needing help, and coming up short. A feeling of being gaslit, a reco
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