The Unbearable Weight of Being: A Meditation on Sovereignty
The truth is a quiet, frightening thing. It sits there, in the hollow of the throat, waiting to be acknowledged. We have spent centuries dressing up our anxieties in the costumes of morality, but let us strip them bare. A woman’s worth—this strange, shivering core of her existence—is not a mathematical equation. It does not fluctuate with the frequency of her intimacy, nor does it dissolve in the choice of her garments. It is not something that is earned in the dark or lost in the light. Her body is not a public square; it is an impenetrable, private garden. … Continue reading The Unbearable Weight of Being: A Meditation on Sovereignty