Kristin Boldon

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“Chained to a child or chained to a desk, a woman's value is contained within her (re)productive abilities. And when these abilities fail, through miscarriage, stillbirth, medical problems, infertility, or she opts out of the whole process, we don't know how to see her. We can't see her. (pg. 52)”
― Lyz Lenz, Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women

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“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, liberation, love, marxism, peace, radicalism, socialism, theology

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“This is a cultural black hole. We do not take care of our women, especially our mothers. If a woman with a mood shift after birth actually admits to it, she finds herself under the catchall label postpartum depression. It is not always accurate. Some women weep. Some women rage. Some women go blank. Some women cannot shake anxiety. We are nuanced creatures. We don’t fit one category. Depression doesn’t always look like what we think depression looks like.”
― Molly Caro May, Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood

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“Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

tags: life-lessons

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“As the concept of home became clearer, women became smaller. For smart, ambitious women with no outlet for their skills except their children, motherhood and homemaking became all-consuming identities. Dalla Costa and James write that women decorate their homes because their homes are the only proof they exist. The same logic could be used for pouring one's life into children. Children become a woman's reason for being, her proof of existence. As if her own existence weren't enough. (Pg 47)”
― Lyz Lenz, Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women

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