About the Author
Gitanjali Venkatesh is a writer exploring girlhood, gender, culture, and the expectations that shape womens' lives. Her work examines the contradictions of growing up, belonging, and learning to choose oneself. She writes to make the familiar feel worth questioning.
For twenty years she is praised for being easy to raise. Then she…
If we’re being honest, most of us are really good at looking like we’re doing fine.
We know how to show up, how to keep things moving, how to act “strong,” productive, and composed, even when something inside us feels off. Somewhere while figuring out life, we give our emotions a life sentence of being…