Becca Greeley

…r the institutional trust to speak these truths. Women like me are very lucky and exceedingly rare. Womanhood is still characterized for many as the expectation that we quietly possess the wisdom and wounds of an oppressive world not designed for us but the weight of which we are expected to carry regardless.

…and true disadvantage make a thousand more stories just like it or worse impossible to speak aloud. The injuries left by these stories swell like abscesses in the memories of women who have neither the platform nor the institutional trust to speak these truths. Women like me are very lucky and exceedingly rare. Womanhood is still characterized for many as the…