What the Constitution Means to Me and Women’s Generational Trauma
What the Constitution Means to Me continues to have a hold on me because I think it is an excellent reminder that we still need feminism, and not the individualistic feminism that saturates popular media today that has been adopted as a way for brands to market products to women under the guise of “self-empowerment.”
Male violence is an omnipresent threat. Our access to reproductive health care is insecure. These are not obsolete concerns of previous generations. The gendered trauma our mothers experienced is ours today.
Specters of Male Violence in “Especially Heinous” and What the Constitution Means to Me
When I was growing up my mom often repeated a warning to my sister and me about men. She warned us that not every man we meet would be as trustworthy as our dad and our poppop. Sometimes she didn’t put our other grandfather or our uncles in this category of trustworthy men, which I don’t think reflects on their character; rather, she knew that even the men closest to us often have the potential to betray us.