Glad to be in the trenches with you trying to write about womanhood/motherhood. It’s so fraught, yet so in the zeitgeist (and therefore needed!). Thanks for the mention; what a list to be included on!🙏🏼
Also your mom’s comment made me lol. Love how our family members can bring us back down to earth real quick😂
Thanks, Adrian! And yeah, I'm grateful for my mom. I think this topic in particular is inherently humbling simply because the very choice to write explicitly about womanhood shows we lack much of the intuitive knowledge base that women in stabler societies (or stabler frames of mind!) have.
Interesting! I’d frame it more as an issue of our environment. We have so much more messaging coming at us (and conflicting messaging at that) than women of the past!
Also, my name is Amber:) It’s ok—it happens all the time. I must give off stronger “Adrian” energy than “Amber”😅
I've loved reading many of these pieces as you've written them!
To add to the list of writers and thinkers to look up to, you've perhaps heard already of Abigail Favale and Erika Bachiochi (of the books "The Genesis of Gender" and "The Rights of Women"). I was introduced to their work years ago by Leah Libresco Sargeant.... so naturally, here they are on two different panels with her. They are like the Catholic Power Trio of sex-realist feminism.
Hilariously enough, in my mind I consider Mary Harrington, Louise Perry, (and maybe Freya India tangentially to some extent) like the Secular(ish?) Power Trio of sex-realist feminism. For them it seems to be founded in natural law observations about the world and all that's gone sideways... and then investigating why, rather than starting from Catholic/Christian foundations.... but is *fascinating* to see them come to some of the same dissident-to-mainstream-culture conclusions about who women are, what we owe them as females and mothers, and what a society looks like when the sexes relate to each other and to the world in dignifying, interdependent, whole and healthy ways.
Always grateful for your writing. I have your new Ekstasis essay in the list to get to soon!
I just want to say I truly loved that piece (the jeans one)! I believe it is how I found your writing! This is a great round up and I will be sharing.
Thank you for the mention as well and I am honored to be in such good company in exploring this topic, you included!
Thanks, Emily!
Glad to be in the trenches with you trying to write about womanhood/motherhood. It’s so fraught, yet so in the zeitgeist (and therefore needed!). Thanks for the mention; what a list to be included on!🙏🏼
Also your mom’s comment made me lol. Love how our family members can bring us back down to earth real quick😂
Thanks, Adrian! And yeah, I'm grateful for my mom. I think this topic in particular is inherently humbling simply because the very choice to write explicitly about womanhood shows we lack much of the intuitive knowledge base that women in stabler societies (or stabler frames of mind!) have.
Interesting! I’d frame it more as an issue of our environment. We have so much more messaging coming at us (and conflicting messaging at that) than women of the past!
Also, my name is Amber:) It’s ok—it happens all the time. I must give off stronger “Adrian” energy than “Amber”😅
I've loved reading many of these pieces as you've written them!
To add to the list of writers and thinkers to look up to, you've perhaps heard already of Abigail Favale and Erika Bachiochi (of the books "The Genesis of Gender" and "The Rights of Women"). I was introduced to their work years ago by Leah Libresco Sargeant.... so naturally, here they are on two different panels with her. They are like the Catholic Power Trio of sex-realist feminism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIX62lhRYfE&t=3020s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK6HPehrxDo
Hilariously enough, in my mind I consider Mary Harrington, Louise Perry, (and maybe Freya India tangentially to some extent) like the Secular(ish?) Power Trio of sex-realist feminism. For them it seems to be founded in natural law observations about the world and all that's gone sideways... and then investigating why, rather than starting from Catholic/Christian foundations.... but is *fascinating* to see them come to some of the same dissident-to-mainstream-culture conclusions about who women are, what we owe them as females and mothers, and what a society looks like when the sexes relate to each other and to the world in dignifying, interdependent, whole and healthy ways.
Always grateful for your writing. I have your new Ekstasis essay in the list to get to soon!