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Why do I feel guilty when I rest?
From Matria
Almost no one carries this question alone. The guilt you feel when resting was taught, by centuries that needed women's labour endless and their stillness named lazy. Tricia Hersey treats rest not as a reward you earn after enough labour but as resistance in itself.
Sourced from Tricia Hersey, Audre Lorde, and the archive
Through time
The same question, carried by women across decades.
1930s
Audre Lorde
1934-1992
1970s
Tricia Hersey
1974-
Newly gathered
This season
Thirteen new voices, four new paths through the archive.
The latest gathering adds body politics, migration, Irish grief traditions, and emerging science on conditions that disproportionately affect women.
Body
The body, claimed
Naomi Wolf, Susie Orbach, Susan Bordo, Roxane Gay
Migration
Leaving home
Warsan Shire and Dina Nayeri on exile, asylum, return
Irish grief
How Ireland grieves
Keening, the wake, the Banshee, Eibhlín Dubh
Science
The body's defences
Endometriosis, PCOS, autoimmunity, and the sexed immune system
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