sundus

Researcher based in NYC. In my professional life, I work on topics ranging from emerging technologies like AI to the future of work. In my personal life, I obsess over ideas like consciousness, identity, agency, health, and more.

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"over the mysteries of female life, there is drawn a veil best left undisturbed"

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Wow, I loved this post. Makes it feel all the more important for me to figure out the loop that drives my personality—and invest in improving it if it’s looking bad!

If you’ve spent years gloomily rehashing every miserable injustice visited upon you by family, friends, or bus drivers named Carl, guess what: that’s your jackpot in old age. You’ve waited your whole life to park your brain in that personal hell, and it will finally greet you with outstretched arms and a gilded invitation that says, Welcome Home.

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I wrote about my frustrations trying to reconnect with my femininity—a characteristic that, prior to my six-year stint on birth control, felt as natural to me as breathing. What does it mean, and how does it tie into ever-changing models of womanhood? How can you embody femininity authentically when much of it is societally informed?

There’s something strange about being a woman, perhaps even stranger than being a human. Right? Or maybe it only feels that way because femininity has been relentlessly commodified and womanhood unapologetically bastardized—by both sides of the ideological spectrum—which has left me with a whole mess to figure out for myself. I suspect many of my female peers feel similarly and, given our increasingly atomized society, are stuck trying to (re)define womanhood and femininity on their own. (From psychoanalyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés in her book Women Who Run With The Wolves: “We have seen the feminine instinctive nature looted, driven back, and overbuilt.”6 Indeed, we have.)

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