Rituals of embodiment, becoming, sovereignty, creativity, inheritance and grief—the evolving wisdom stories of womanhood.

When I was eighteen, my seventeen-year-old friend came to stay with me in the city.
I did not know until later that she had undergone labiaplasty. Her boyfriend had made a shaming comment about her vulva. She was so embarrassed that she lied, saying she had driven five hours to go to the dentist. That moment stayed with me.
It planted a seed.