By Margarita Tartakovsky — 2016
Problems arise when moms believe they need to give everything—all their time and attention to their kids—without nurturing themselves,
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CLEAR ALL
So many of the little rituals I have each day—like my makeup or skincare routine—do help soothe and/or rejuvenate me. For me, any type of solo practiced routine is good. But I’ve learned that self-care does not, and cannot, sustain me. And I believe that this may be the case for many of you.
Now, five years later, this is blindingly obvious to me – and my son has become the happiest I’ve seen him since he was a child.
Queer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own aesthetic and a defiant repudiation of the male gaze.
Who owns your identity, and how can old ways of thinking be replaced?
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They call me Bapa.
“Maybe instead of biology, I should be cursing the culture that taught me I’m less of a woman because I can’t have children.”