Status Updates From Medusa

from the author — I hope her story helps inspire others to find their own voices and reminds us all to take the time to listen.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 well done, rosie.

‘I have found a small corner of history and claimed it as my own, not as a monster or a victim, but as a survivor, a protector.’

✨🫶🏻✨🥹

“I have been waiting to meet you for a very long time.” 🥹

‘Our fragile patriarchy could hardly accept a female monster who can kill men and think for herself.’

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

“Medusa, I’m sorry. ”
“I know.”

😢😔

‘You might find this extreme, but some friendships are just like that – you can find the bond of a lifetime in just a matter of days. I hope you will all be lucky enough to experience a friendship like that one day.’ 🥹🫶🏻 i have.

‘I had never seen a man cry like that before and it was beautiful to see such unapologetic vulnerability.’

‘I paused, drawing in an uneven breath as I let my words burn between us. “You will never know what it feels like to have the whole world against you, to be forced into a narrative you never wanted to be part of… So do not sit there and make assumptions about me, because you know nothing of what I have been through.”

“Tell me then.”

this is all it takes to bridge a gap sometimes. 🫶🏻

‘Hope is a dangerous thing.’

‘After all, violence only ever breeds more violence.’

this is the most important thing that is so forgotten by everyone to ever live… 😔

‘Time takes a lot from you – beauty, memories, youth. But it can also give you many gifts as well, one of which is a sense of perspective.’ 🙌🏻