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 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 state.

Women’s Work is written by me, Emily. I am a mother to three beautiful children before I am any other “thing”. Motherhood is my identity and I am unapologetic about this. My work is informed by my personal pendulum swing from IV heroin addict in my late teens and early twenties to a woman who owns a home that is heated solely with wood in the winter, slaughters chickens, helps women nurse their babies, collects antique sickles for fun, home schools her children, is obsessed with various historical crafts no one sells supplies for anymore (tin punching and wheat weaving, anyone?) and free-births her babies. From the fringes of society and back (sort of).