Self worth is something I place a high priority on... in other people. It doesn't even exist in my emotional vernacular. The entirety of my life, my worth has based on my appearance and what I can provide to others. Worth and love have always been transactional. I'm no innocent, but I have been left to fend for myself, scrounging for and happily accepting any love, even if all the only love I can find has been coupled with abuse and rape.
Tag: Memoir
Books to Read This Spring 2021
Well... I'm only behind 48 book reviews. Instead of drowning myself and you in book reviews, I've decided to round them up. It makes my life much easier, and also won't bore you with nothing but book content for months on end because that is exactly what it would turn into.
Laura Lippman’s Feminist Revolution in My Life as a Villainess
Laura Lippman is a badass and a woman who loves herself, and that is a feminist revolution in and of itself.
Childhood Trauma in Alan Cummings’ Not My Father’s Son
A beautifully honest dive into heartbreaking memories that helped create an incredible talent in actor Alan Cummings. He revisits the childhood trauma and violence endured from his father with the grace and raw honesty any survivor can relate to.
I’d Like All Advice to Be As Friendly As Amy Poehler’s in Yes Please
Yes Please is a great book to make you laugh during these dark times. It’s real in the way you want memoirs to be; it’s funny in the way you hope a comic’s memoir is; and it’s raw in a way a strong woman who knows her own mind is.
Dear Girls by Ali Wong
I instantly fell in love with Ali Wong when she walked onto the screen of my TV with her pregnant belly, dirty mouth, and satire in Baby Cobra. I like her even more in her familiar yet fresh collection of letters to her daughters.