What I’m reading to contextualize and imagine this curriculum.

“To have borne and reared a child is to have done that thing which patriarchy joins with physiology to render into the definition of femaleness. But also, it can mean experiencing of one’s own body and emotions in a powerful way.”

“We most truly come alive and grow when we are in good connection with others.”

It is now two years since I left the hospital room where I birthed my baby. Not really understanding why, I photographed the plain room with its white walls and brown sealed floor, thick darkened glass window, tan plastic upholstered couch, and light blue sheets. The beauty was not in the appearance but in the sacred space it had become. I had entered that room deep in labor as a different person than the one now leaving, deflated belly, swollen breasts, beaming, and foggy.