invited some girlfriends over to play a set for us and it was so sweet/wholesome! we always talk about wanting the feel of house parties again, intimate safe settings with close friends and ppl actually dancing <3 this provided that and more, canāt wait for the next one!
This was how I celebrated my fourth this year, a level playing field. But you have to make sure your phone dies right at the start of the night for peak experience. š«°
I think 10 year old addy wouldāve passed out if sheād known that she would come to own this in 13 yearsā¦you can take the girl out of bikini bottom but you canāt take bikini bottom out of the girl
i really also think about how much boys are taught ways to perform masculinity & how it is legitimised through tangible things like building a career etc but with women i find that from a young age our identity, behaviours, & thoughts are always spoken about in relation to other people/things ā gender roles within the family, how weāre perceived by men, our friendships with other women, our relationships with material things etc etc ā and this shows up in the labels that women are often given too! so and so is someoneās daughter, girlfriend, wife, mother etc etc. i envy the freedom of boyhood so much, the freedom to just be (this is not to discount the toxicity of traditional masculinity, i just think that boys are still afforded more āplayā and therefore have more opportunities to develop their sense of self). maybe i am also biased because of how iāve grown up & whatnot but i never really understood what it meant to quote unquote be a woman or perform femininity. i only saw this modelled within my nurturing friendships with women as iāve gotten older but when i was younger, in church it was always āok well donāt do this or that because x y z will happen to men if you doā or within my extended family it was often āare you seeing anyone? when are you having kidsā. damn what happened to asking about how iām doing or what my dreams are!!! long rant sorry !! but thatās my long winded way of saying āi feel youā haha