Welcome to Women’s Work
Women’s Work is a collection of ideas surrounding both the female experience and the vocation of womanhood, as well as thoughts on current cultural happenings and how they affect women, girls and the family. I aspire to write weekly, and often do, sometimes even twice weekly! I also often skip a week or two, as I write in those spare small moments between folding laundry, doing dishes, reading stories, and running my teenager all around town!
I conceive of femininity as something equally tender and sharp, and my writing reflects this.
I am ever devoted to the endeavor of attempting to make sense of the inconsistencies between our inherent human nature and the modern pressures of technological society. This is especially in reference to motherhood, which I have personally found to be absolutely incompatible with the expectations of the market and the state.
From deep dives on things like self-care for the postpartum mother to thoughts on welcoming unplanned pregnancies to nuanced considerations about why porn is “industrialized human sexuality”, I seek to discuss both the practical and the philosophical on issues which women both personally experience and also are impacted by.
Women’s Work is written by me, Emily, never with the “help” of AI, which I actively oppose.
I am blessed to be the mother of four beautiful children, a wife, and the caretaker of a modest handful of beautiful acres and an old farmhouse in the rural Missouri Ozarks.
In addition to my home life, I am also a nurse by trade, which is obviously traditional “women’s work” in itself, and which I recognize and seek to honor while also lamenting the current state of nursing due to the systematic and procedural nature of the healthcare industry.
My background is primarily in women’s health, from labor and delivery and triage to postpartum and lactation consulting. In addition to my professional experience, my varied experiences with my own births (from hospital birth to free birth) and mothering informs the questions I seek to explore in my writing.
Through my writing on these vast topics and how they touch women, children, and families, I hope to spark critical thought and reverence for life, vitality and all that is good.
Thank you for your readership!
