AWAKE & UNAFRAID

Bonus nona spoiler sketch

having a crush rocks actually. the pleasure & the agony’s all mine etc.

“Party” by Kim Addonizio

“O Small Sad Ecstasy of Love” “Short Talk on Le Bonheur d’être bien aimée” and “Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff” by Anne Carson

“Come, And Be My Baby” by Maya Angelou

“Lies About Sea Creatures” and “The End of Poetry” by Ada Limón

“Love Comes Quietly” by Robert Creeley

do you remember how we used to run

is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?

why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?

core concept: what is gender essentialism?

is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?

look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?