Status Updates From Cwen

“My baby had run down my legs, oozing into my shoes.”

I have never read are more fitting or more horrifying description of having experienced a miscarriage.

The one thing I’m not getting is how Eva raised such sexist, privileged, utterly full-of-themselves sons? Or is it the male influence from their fathers and society in general that she couldn’t counteract enough? It probably is.

At the college Eva actually ran a campaign against handbags, pro pockets in women's clothing. She wanted the students to learn to see something seemingly innocuous and irrelevant like a handbag, as part of something larger and much more sinister: the way women are prevented from having their hands free to defend themselves, or make things. Men's clothing always has loads of pockets.

'I want to do things that haven't been done before,’ Eva said. 'We need rules around sustainable harvesting from the seas. It's so male to take out everything and leave nothing behind—

cwen
Woman, wife, female ruler of a state.

cwën - old English
queynte - middle English
cunt - modern English