Thank you for sharing these bits of lecture—as someone who finds herself somewhat reluctantly writing a memoir, it's incredibly grounding and reassuring to interact with these lines of thought and reflection. i wish you and your community a healthy and fruitful new year <3333333
I'm so glad it was helpful! Always happy to cheerlead memoir (again, especially because I need to hear it myself sometimes).
I'm just now acquainting myself with your newsletter, and adoring it. Grateful to find another rad, smart, personal/political-weaving writer on here. :)
thank you so much for writing this... it is such a gift to stumble across someone's failures and successes and learnings and to be able to share in that digitally and across many miles... I am finding so much community and support and encouragement from your words. blessings your way and again, gratitude for your beauty and grace in articulation and knowledge/wisdom sharing!
Amazing, Raechel! I’m so glad your writing, in its many forms, is in my life! If I ever teach at a college again, Rust Belt Femme will be on the syllabus!
And solidarity with how the aftereffects of pregnancy loss complicate relationships, only to be followed by a Tower-experience health crisis. Kiernan and I went through a similar timeline. Really grateful to have you articulating emotions for me that I did not even know where to begin with. ♥️
and whew, sorry you had a similar timeline. it's been a lot, and very difficult to not have a more, like, palatable narrative around what we were navigating/how we were feeling when this all happened. grateful for writing that is willing to show a fuller, more nuanced picture (yours included).
Thank you for sharing these bits of lecture—as someone who finds herself somewhat reluctantly writing a memoir, it's incredibly grounding and reassuring to interact with these lines of thought and reflection. i wish you and your community a healthy and fruitful new year <3333333
I'm so glad it was helpful! Always happy to cheerlead memoir (again, especially because I need to hear it myself sometimes).
I'm just now acquainting myself with your newsletter, and adoring it. Grateful to find another rad, smart, personal/political-weaving writer on here. :)
thank you so much for writing this... it is such a gift to stumble across someone's failures and successes and learnings and to be able to share in that digitally and across many miles... I am finding so much community and support and encouragement from your words. blessings your way and again, gratitude for your beauty and grace in articulation and knowledge/wisdom sharing!
thank you so much for reading. i'm so glad to know it felt supportive. <3 sending you lots of good energy and solidarity! <3
Amazing, Raechel! I’m so glad your writing, in its many forms, is in my life! If I ever teach at a college again, Rust Belt Femme will be on the syllabus!
And solidarity with how the aftereffects of pregnancy loss complicate relationships, only to be followed by a Tower-experience health crisis. Kiernan and I went through a similar timeline. Really grateful to have you articulating emotions for me that I did not even know where to begin with. ♥️
thank you, cameron!!
and whew, sorry you had a similar timeline. it's been a lot, and very difficult to not have a more, like, palatable narrative around what we were navigating/how we were feeling when this all happened. grateful for writing that is willing to show a fuller, more nuanced picture (yours included).