As exhilarating as the images of the women’s strike in Spain were, it’s the experiences of women in Yarl’s Wood that define the boundaries of our freedom…
What difference would it make if, instead of being made to suppress part of their nature in order to succeed, women were allowed to bring all of themselves and shape things from there?
Florence Nightingale’s plea for women to be free to suffer resonated because of my experiences and also brought to mind the Judea Capta who fascinated me in the past
While my new-found confidence in my own instincts is appreciated, I’m aware too that more than an individualistic self-help approach is needed if real change is going to take place