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When you’re losing your memory, being in a place where your life happened, where the past is at your fingertips, is important. It’s reassuring.”
“We are not magic,” she says. “We are resilient. It’s not a wand. It’s work.
I ain’t waiting for nobody to tell me I’m the shit. You better know it going in.”
There are women like me who are mothering in our own ways, but have never carried a child or been a parent. We’re teachers and mentors and social workers and godmothers. We find ways to pour love into the world, to shape the world for good without bearing a child. It’s not about our wombs. It’s about our hearts and how we share them. That is bodily agency—me getting to decide what I do with my body in this life.”