I realised early on that I would have to be OK with peeing myself. It seemed counter-productive to labour towards opening up more and more and more with each contraction, and during this maintain an exception for bladder control. I would have to let go of that as well. (I had come across no explicit discussion of bladder control during labour anywhere in the literature and clearly this wasn’t the time to look it up, although in retrospect a birth story from Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth comes to mind, where a woman mentioned that the toilet was where she felt most comfortable. Perhaps she was troubled by the same contradiction while relaxing her pelvic floor. In any case, labouring in the loo was out of the question. I needed to keep moving.) This also meant that I wouldn’t be able to rest much on the bed: wetting the bed was an inhibition I didn’t care to break, plus lying down during contractions seemed to make them shockingly longer and stronger.
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Άρθρο που έγραψε ο πατέρας μου και δημοσιεύτηκε στον Φιλελεύθερο. Το άρθρο στάληκε και στην Ένωση Συντακτών, η οποία απάντησε πως έχει ήδη τοποθετηθεί επίσημα για το θέμα και προώθησε τις επίσημες της ανακοινώσεις. – Σύνδεσμος στις επίσημες ανακοινώσεις της ‘Ενωσης Συντακτών – Σύνδεσμος σε άρθρο του Φιλελεύθερου για τις ανακοινώσεις της Ε.Σ. __________________ Η […]
I’ve been trying to understand what happened and why. Amidst the media absurdity, the offensive onslaught, the ever-deepening politics, and the strange suspension of normality, I’ve been asking questions in an effort to extract sense and political context from all this. I do not have my mother’s permission to publish / share anything (I have […]
So she was hacked. There dawns the realisation that it was a matter of time, one way or another. When we recently talked about the possibility of her being targeted in this way, in advance of all this, she ended the conversation with ‘μάνα μου εν έσιει τίποτε.’ Her sense that there’s nothing to hide […]
What follows should, eventually, lead into a piece discussing conflict-resolution in open communities, and the handling of authoritative mentalities. The sheer power of hierarchy-assuming or hierarchy-constructing exclamations of ‘no’ is always surprising to me. As is the arrogance, the injustice, the power-plays it contains, as is the speed, the insensitivity, and the ease with which […]
These are the early stages of an online crush;
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