Why autonomy is an illusion and care is the point.
Leah Libresco Sargeant and I talk about something simple that we spend a lot of time avoiding.
We are not autonomous.
We talk about women’s bodies, pregnancy, and the way those realities don’t fit a culture built around control and choice.
We talk about the idea that a good life is one where everything is chosen, and why that breaks down the moment someone depends on you.
And we come back, again and again, to this:
The parts of life we treat as interruptions are often the point.
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I'm the author of The Dignity of Dependence, as a well as Arriving at Amen and Building the Benedict Option. My substack, Other Feminisms, is about how to advocate for women as women in a world that treats us like defective men.