Kathryn D'Agostino

Tag: Feminism

  • You are here

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    I know it’s unfair that I don’t name my trauma. I’ve never explicitly written about it. There are approximately 40 people in the whole world who know what I’m referencing when I speak of my trauma. But I also know that won’t always be the case. Whether people agree with it or not I am…

  • I am

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    I’m not choosing anymore Planning what Im going to be No I’m doing I am I’m me

  • Aran cardigan Installment #2 – Research

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         Sunday is for slowing down, reminding myself that intentionality in my work is an act of grounding. And today is international Women’s Day, I cant think of a better day to be immersed in knitting, reading the works of women who changed the craft, thinking about how every woman’s hands have physically captured culture,…

  • Octopus Advice

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    I’ve meditated every morning for the past 209 days. By the time you’re reading this, it’ll be longer than that. I can genuinely say it has helped. But I still cry in the car and escape to the bathroom when I feel the first chest crushing blows of a panic attack. I don’t have the…

  • How We Hold

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    Making art has felt so necessary in my life. Over the past year or so I’ve slowly re-immersed myself in the creative process. I’ve written, doodled, knitted, crocheted, paper-mached, I’ve done a lot. And I did it all in the pursuit of escaping the hell of living with PTSD and active trauma. Writing has traditionally…

  • Awe

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    Originally Posted on October 1st, 2023 I’ve been on a bit of a creative kick recently. Maybe it’s the super full moon, or the transition to the fall season, or just my personal journey. Whatever it is this creativity of mine has really centered on themes of womanhood, patriarchal structures, and the spaces we make…

  • My daughters

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    Originally Posted on August 21st, 2023 I hope when my daughters grow up their voices drown mine out as they shout from the rooftopsI hope they grow up to be furious and loud I want their voices to carry across the expanse and overtake the hum of indifference Drown out the evil that wishes to…

  • Consistency

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    Originally Posted on August 20th, 2023 Sometimes consistency doesn’t work. We forget that the routines we build are arbitrary and abstract. I’ve spent months on end working out every morning, engaging in hobbies, putting away the laundry. We present to ourselves the idea that creating these routines builds security and for a time that may…

  • She said,

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    Originally Posted March 13th, 2023 “I am not here to judge you, only to molest youStrip you of your dignity Crack open your chest and let your vitality spill on the floorI am the curtain and there is nothing but a man behind meI emptied myself out before anyone else could” – She said

  • Pacifist not Passive

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    Originally Posted on March 12th, 2023 Like a sitting duckWe are prey We are not human Humanity is for those who pray My existence is contingent on enduring the pain of the unspoken rules My life matters less because they say so My rights are not human I am a monster of their creation How…