Emily Hancock

Read this week's best in sex-realist feminism from @NadyaWilliams81, @Louise_m_perry, @DouthatNYT, @SiobhanHC_OLY, @stephmurrayyyy, @Feminaevitale, @rclu, @thatazuresea, @bindelj, and more! fairerdisputations.substack.com/p/mothers-and-…

“ Pregnancy is a state of generative excellence, and @bonnie_blue_xo has turned it into a repulsive spectacle. It’s not misogyny to say so, it is misogyny to pretend otherwise.” Read the rest: open.substack.com/pub/theworkofw…

Here I share on what my community (like so many other communities) are up against in reference to data centers, the corporations that are encouraging local officials to approve them and change zoning laws, and technocracy in general:

This week: @SerenaSigillito reviews @caroclaireburke's "Yesteryear" as a chilling satire of what @theologianmom calls the "empty self" fairerdisputations.org/yesteryear/

On why our images are so significant (they’re a tool of memory and legacy), the “deep” in deepfakes (tech made to mimic human neurology), the literary origins of Grok, the experience of knowing you are being sexualized by adults as a child and more… open.substack.com/pub/theworkofw…

15 lessons from 15 years of sobriety: open.substack.com/pub/theworkofw…

Breastfeeding deserves protection because it is the standard biology set, and that should be enough. open.substack.com/pub/theworkofw…

Sharing on when I realized I wanted kids, thanks to a good friend. We now have 8 children between us! Also: •not leaving our families and places of origin •if lack of exposure to babies is contributing to the mental health issues teenage girls have open.substack.com/pub/theworkofw…

In response to the suggestion that women should outsource caregiving partially via automation in order to be more excellent in other arenas. Read the rest at Women's Work. open.substack.com/pub/theworkofw…

Plus, this week's must reads, from @annalouiesuss, @DKThomp, @Feminaevitale, @maryrosesoma @NadyaWilliams81, @writingblock, @JerusalemDemsas, and more! fairerdisputations.org/the-week-11142…

A discussion on birth control, separation of body and soul and Depo Provera and brain tumors: open.substack.com/pub/theworkofw…

“ These tiny garments of cotton and wool are the evidence that we were here together once, almost always entwined, enamored, eternal. They are the archeological relics of my mental terrain.” open.substack.com/pub/theworkofw…

"The knowledge that we bleed...frightens many... But those who can face these realities...[by] caring for others receive the unique power of true material understanding...and a felt sense of the preciousness of life lived in the human body." @Feminaevitale fairerdisputations.org/vulnerability-…

"Some may scoff...because it requires no special talent to get pregnant. Yet biological reality is the necessary foundation of all human existence." @Feminaevitale fairerdisputations.org/vulnerability-…

This week: @Feminaevitale argues that the vulnerability of the female body is the source of women’s deepest power. fairerdisputations.org/vulnerability-…

On the media being both the message and the channels by which the message reaches us, discernment in this realm for ourselves and for our children, and also, the “media that made me” (millennial edition). open.substack.com/pub/theworkofw…

On the media being both the message and the channels by which the message reaches us, discernment in this realm for ourselves and for our children, and also, the “media that made me” (millennial edition). open.substack.com/pub/theworkofw…

@Dr_Ali_Carine @TheFP @karakclairmont That was a quote from me, I wrote my own piece (actually, several) on free birth as a counter to some of what was included in this article. On free birth: open.substack.com/pub/theworkofw… On fbs: open.substack.com/pub/theworkofw…

@TheFP @karakclairmont I appreciated the comment that called it a fetish of pain and risk. I think we very much underestimate how humans can glorify suffering and risk taking.

For the past few months, @KaraKClairmont has spoken to dozens of women who have been involved with an organization called the Free Birth Society. What she found is astonishing.

On a hot topic, free birth: open.substack.com/pub/theworkofw…