Imported from Tumblr, Sep. 2019

Like #careers

and #politics

and #dreams

and #ideas

and #movement

and #art

and #creation

and #resilience

and #motherhood

and #sisterhood

and #nature

and #exploration

and #emotions

and #rage

and #forgiveness

and #music

and #film

and #finance

and #mindfulness

And I’ll think about this every time I greet my nieces and automatically move to comment on their appearance- their hair, their outfits, their accessories. Do we do this to boys?

And I’ll think about this every time I scroll through Instagram, comparing myself to strangers. Society loves a good cat fight- pitting women against women. What scraps are we fighting over?

We are more than our bodies- more than breasts and skin and hair and pretty faces. We are more than smiles and kindness and sweetness.

It’s exhausting that, as a woman, I have to relearn this about myself.