I’m Watching My Daughter’s Confidence Slowly Crumble

At 10 years old, she spends a lot of time frowning into mirrors

Kerala Taylor

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My daughter has always done things her own way.

She first defied me when she was 36 weeks in the womb. I was sitting on our balcony, and all of a sudden I felt something large and round lodged under my ribcage. It felt like a head — which is…

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Kerala Taylor

Award-winning writer. Interrupting notions of what it means to be a mother, woman, worker, and wife. Subscribe: https://keralataylor.substack.com