I see the world through the lens of the person I am, and two major components of that are my gender and my faith. I don’t

I see the world through the lens of the person I am, and two major components of that are my gender and my faith. I don’t know what it is to live as anything but myself, can’t think and feel as anyone else. I write frequently about the mythologies of womanhood because those myths have caused me considerable suffering. The stories we are told about women are stories intended to silence, smother, and subjugate women. To be a woman is hard enough, and to be a sick woman is worse.

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