Angela reflects on her transition from full-time caregiving to self-care, the importance of community support through life's major milestones, and how women's hard-won freedoms are under threat. She discusses generational shifts around gender identity and honors the sacrifices of past activists whose legacy is often forgotten.
Right now I'm in a transition. Yeah. So I have this difference between being a mom or parent, the 24-hour caregiver, and being back to who I am. So I'm taking care of myself 24/7. That's a new thing and it's something— there are different landmarks throughout our experience as women. I think. That we should have a village for. Marriage. Please, sisters, grandmothers, aunties, tell me about that so that I have all the information so that I can embody that before. I love the word embody. Yes. And then I also thought I'd just bring up that there's a conversation brewing for me about female-bodied people versus people who identify as female, our lived experiences are very different. For you and I, maybe the stereotypes of girls wear dresses was something that was enforced in our youth, and then younger women have been allowed to see their gender as fluid or to embody femininity the way that they want to versus the way that they were told to. And I feel like that's a hot spot. I welcome the dialogue, I welcome the conversation, but I also think it's kind of like— and this isn't really— they're not really kin, but like, they're not apples to apples. There was a time when gay people couldn't be themselves in public. I still think it's tricky. And there were people who fought for them. There were people who stood up so that the next generation could have some sort of normalcy about their experience being gay. I think the people who fought and the people who went through the shit that they did are often forgotten. And the history of where the gay community came from is the backbone of where they came from. So even you and I are afforded so many freedoms, right? The second— yes, yeah— that our mothers and grandmothers fought for. Absolutely. Believed that were futile fight, like, never gonna change. I'm never gonna be able to have a credit card or have my own apartment. And that's so recent, so fascinating to me how there are still some people who are just of that same sort of old school mindset. They're going back that way because that's what man wants us to do. They're pulling back and woman needs to be in the home. That's kind of what's happening. We're regressing. That's why we have to be even louder.
Mom and I off to Santa Fe and Taos for Yoga Nidra and Enlightenment #retreat #spirituality #family
