On Womanhood:

The individual experience of it all

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Once, when asked to speak about this, I said that womanhood begins and ends with self; anything outside of that frames it as concrete and an act to follow. There is and always has been something strange about being asked to define my womanhood by others who I am sure could not define their own. The idea that womanhood is and can only be one way for all women, not only strips away…