✨Meg✨

Still the One Who Showed Up A funeral never held. A reckoning that wouldn’t stay quiet.

Not all grief looks like a funeral. Some of it looks like a wedding.

I showed up for the side of the family that never showed up for me because one woman tried.

And that’s the whole story.

⚡ New essay: Still the One Who Showed Up

The Most Dangerous Place Patriarchy Hides: Home The Night I Saw My Blind Spot

He’s kind. He listens. He knows what consent means.
I still caught myself handing him an easier world than his sister.
This isn’t about parenting, it’s about what patriarchy looks like when you’re too tired to notice.
📖 New Substack: Feminism Didn’t Fold the Laundry

Thank you for your taking the time to read - sometimes your inner monologue needs to come out ✨🤙

🥀 FIELD GUIDE TO FEMINIST ROT For the woman decomposing the myth of having it all

Ever feel like you’re emotionally composting in a society built on your unpaid labor? Same. Welcome to my rot era. 🥀✨
Read: A Field Guide to Feminist Rot →

GRAY AREA WOMAN What it looks like when you blow up your life and still choose to bloom

She blew up her life and applied to be a garden apprentice. Not a crisis. A reclamation. For every woman who woke up midlife and said: this isn’t me. Read : 🌱 Gray Area #GrayAreaWoman #MidlifeAwakening
#NeurodivergentWomen
#PerimenopauseTruth
#ReclaimYourLife

Gatekeeping in a Gilded Cage: On the women who didn’t help me, the part of me that still hoped they would, and what we all lose when we mistake performance for power.

Some of the deepest cuts don’t bleed. They come from the women we thought would open the door. This isn’t a callout—it’s a reckoning. For anyone who’s felt the ache of being quietly shut out, and is ready to build something truer—without dragging the old rules with them. #matriachs

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@femsocphd.bsky.social @dawnoceanharmony.bsky.social @drharmony.net
He’s gonna hate this.

“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”

Melinda Gates

CBS News boss exits amid Trump pressure | CNN Business Wendy McMahon’s exit has some employees feeling “like a purge is underway,” one CBS correspondent told CNN on Monday.

This is UNACCEPTABLE & alarming. “Independent journalists are being silenced simply because their reporting may threaten the ambitions of their corporate owners,” Gomez wrote. “It will only embolden an Administration hell-bent on censoring speech and controlling content.” www.cnn.com/2025/05/19/m...

Why Women Stop Showing Their Brilliance Because they already know how it will land. This is how I’m learning to risk being seen anyway.

Ever felt the sting of showing something brave—and getting “feedback” instead of belief?
I wrote about the quiet gut-punches that keep women shrinking, the system that taught us to brace, and what it means to risk being seen anyway.
#feminism #unlearning Read Here:

I think birth order has a huge roll in a lot of things I agree with this 100%

well, I think it’s about time we change that I’m sick of it and I can’t unsee what I see

It’s time we stop participating in a system that was never meant for us and time to take ownership of the power we have always had and stop with the lie.

The biggest gap in gender equity isn’t the pay gap—it’s the unpaid wife gap. Until we fix who does the hidden labor, everything else is a lie. #gendergap

Article excerpt: In Bangladesh, U.S. diplomats pressed Starlink’s case “early and often” with local officials, partnered with Starlink to “build an educational strategy” for their counterparts and helped arrange a conversation between Musk and the nation’s head of state, according to a recent cable. The embassy’s work started under Biden but bore fruit only after Trump took office. Their efforts resulted in Bangladesh approving Starlink’s request to do business in the country, the top U.S. diplomat there said last month, a sign-off that Musk’s company had sought for years.

It’s not just Gambia.

We got internal cables, notes and other records that show how U.S. diplomats have intervened on behalf of Starlink in at least four other developing nations. All while the U.S. has withdrawn foreign aid from those same countries.

Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.

Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now:

“Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.”

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THE ANATOMY OF UNLEARNING….. What It Feels Like to Finally Stop Explaining Yourself There was no epiphany.

Women aren’t breaking down.
We’re coming back online.
The systems are still broken, our nervous systems just stopped cosigning the lie.

New essay: The Anatomy of Unlearning
A field report from the moment you stop performing and start existing.

read:
#somatictruth #feministreality #mentalhealth

Modern stake? It’s being labeled too intense, too emotional, too much.
Meanwhile, you’re out here holding the damn scaffolding together.
So here’s to letting it collapse—with ice water in hand.
#PettyBetty #WitchDidntBurn #HighFidelityTruths

Look for the signs

What to Know About the Hepatitis A Outbreak in L.A. County

Public health officials in Los Angeles County have declared an outbreak of hepatitis A, a highly contagious liver infection driven by a virus that can, in rare cases, cause severe illness. Here’s what to know.

“We Don’t Do That Anymore” Aka: What Happens When the Scapegoat Stops Performing Emotional CPR

I used to shrink myself to be lovable. Quiet Helpful Forgiving A buffer. Then I realized, they never planned to meet me.
They just liked me smaller This is the moment I stopped holding my breath for people who let me drown. It’s raw & if it hits your gut it’s for you #FeministRecovery #MotherWound

Yes! I am a policy junkie! I went the macro route and never looked back

The Men Who Shaped Me, the Silence That Almost Took Me, and the Reckoning I Refuse to Miss Three men. One lost to death. One to silence. One, I’m still married to. What I’ve learned about love, autonomy, privilege, and the quiet collapse of a country too distracted to notice.

Three men shaped my life.
One died. One vanished. One stayed.
But none of them asked who I was.
This is a wake-up call for me, and maybe for all of us.

Read: “The Men Who Shaped Me and the Reckoning I Refuse to Miss” #RevivalLab #SubstackWriters #WomenWhoRemember

🙏 thank you

No Confusion here. Just awareness and awareness can be dangerous here……

This Is What Waking Up Feels Like Author’s Note

Waking up doesn’t always look like a breakthrough. Sometimes, it’s just standing in your kitchen, coffee in hand, realizing you’ve been quieting your own voice for too long.

I wrote about that moment—the real kind of awakening, not the Instagram version. #FeministAwakening #RealTalk #Substack

I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages

Harvard Law professor Michael Klarman gave an inspiring lecture about the need for lawyers to protect democracy. I was honored that he noted the attacks and threats aimed at me. His words serve to steel my spine and make me more committed than ever to fighting for democracy.

Thank you professor.🙏

Third Time’s the Charm (Or So They Said) By the time I was born, my family had already run through most of its big emotions.

I spent two decades shrinking myself to fit a life that was never built for me.
I finally stopped.

My new piece: “Third Time’s the Charm (Or So They Said)