Status Updates From Pyktis jai tinka

"It is impossible to measure the impact of stories about gender-based violence have on women's psyches. It is even harder to measure what it means in terms of lost lives and opportunities."

In motherhood, we can find joy, love, security, community, and for many women, life's greatest purpose. It is not and should not be, however, the inevitable path for all girls and women; the standard against which we are all measured. It is a basic human decency to create a society in which motherhood is not wielded as a weapon against women, in which it is not coerced, forced, punishing, violent, & life threatening.

A lot of this is re-reviewed info. But it’s still valuable. Favorite idea: anger is forward looking. Despondency is backward looking and apathetic

"Not only is caring expensive and financially risky, but the gendered care mandate continues to be the major roadblock to virtually every established path to financial stability and leadership that women might pursue."