By Hannah Swerling — 2018
We know motherhood has a deep impact on all levels: psychological, physical, professional, emotional. But what does it mean to be a mum today?
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CLEAR ALL
Now, five years later, this is blindingly obvious to me – and my son has become the happiest I’ve seen him since he was a child.
Queer culture and the arts would be much poorer without the presence and contribution of butch and stud lesbians, whose identity is both its own aesthetic and a defiant repudiation of the male gaze.
Who owns your identity, and how can old ways of thinking be replaced?
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They call me Bapa.
“Maybe instead of biology, I should be cursing the culture that taught me I’m less of a woman because I can’t have children.”