jin / 문신지

birthworker · writer

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my private little hell, this new blobg

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The mystic Simone Weil wrote to a friend on another continent, “Let us love this distance, which is thoroughly woven with friendship, since those who do not love each other are not separated.” For Weil, love is the atmosphere that fills and colors the distance between herself and her friend. Even when that friend arrives on the doorstep, something remains impossibly remote: when you step forward to embrace them your arms are wrapped around mystery, around the unknowable, around that which cannot be possessed. The far seeps in even to the nearest. After all we hardly know our own depths.

—Rebecca Solnit, "The Blue of Distance," A Field Guide to Getting Lost

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"I have received permission from my elders to write about this." - Patrisia Gonzales

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"Having faced the ceremonial madrugada, wee morning hours when the thin membranes of time and space are a cervix transitioning to give birth, I knew this ceremonial time from our all-night prayer vigils. During ceremony, we must rely on something beyond our cognizant powers and allow spiritual matter to appear, produce, recede, return. Driving home from a birth at dawn after being up for twenty-four hours, I had the same feeling as when I emerged from a ceremony, exhausted, my soul polished like a stone."

— Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birth and Healing, Patrisia Gonzales (page 1)

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recommended bb books

feed the baby, shruti nagaraj MD, MPH (forward), victoria facelli, IBCLC (author)

queer nursing, gorilla milk

baby making for everybody: fertility and family building for lgbtq+ and solo parents