Your best friend dying is one of the worst experiences. Nothing even feels real. You grow up to be older than they will ever be, you experience things they never will, you end up literally moving on - without them. It feels so unfair.
This was me when I realised that there was no need for me to be rational about my feminism. Patriarchy itself is so absurd & illogical that my resistance to it doesn’t need to be neat or persuasive to the very people it benefits.
You’ve heard of writer’s block? Now meet the reader’s block. You want to read. You have time. You know what to read. You have a pile of books ready to read. But you can't sit still enough to read...