You will heal humanity, not by bearing children, but birthing the empowered you who asks her man to break out of his patriarchal training to be her match.
This isn’t a letter to 'forgive' anyone, for I believe that you taught me valuable things. But isn’t it time to release old ways of relating to each other?
What if our hearts could use this break to take the space left by a lover or friend and fill it with you, so that your heart could be more full of you?
Midway through the lengthy introductions, my timely menstrual interruption came like an anatomy lesson on leadership: feminist politics infused with blood.