Women’s Stories is where everyday life shows what women learn to notice, carry, soften, question, and sometimes quietly refuse. These pieces are about identity, safety, self-image, reputation, work, family, ageing, and the expectations that arrive long before we have words for them.
This is a category for personal essays about womanhood without performance, perfection, or easy conclusions.
Sakshi was the villain long before she left for Denmark. One braid, one book, one bus ride, one refusal at a time, she became the girl who put ideas in other girls’ heads. Sakshi owns the reputation she never asked for and the life she chose anyway.
The Girl With One Braid Read More »
We joke about girl math as if the strangest female calculation is justifying a handbag on sale. But the real girl math is the everyday arithmetic of safety: what to wear, which route to take, where to sit, who to call, and how much of yourself to make visible.
The Real Girl Math Read More »
We placed mothers on pedestals and called it respect, without noticing how quickly admiration turns into expectation. The moment women become symbols of sacrifice and strength, they stop being allowed complexity, mistakes, exhaustion, anger, ambition, or even ordinary humanity.
Mothers, Mistakes, and the Myth of Perfection Read More »
Women are often asked to explain choices that men make without a story. Work, travel, ambition, self-care, success, even distance from people arrive with justification attached. This essay looks at the stories women learn to tell before anyone asks, and how often we pass them on.
Women: The Stories We Tell About Ourselves Read More »
You think you’re noticing a person.
The clothes, the walk, the outline of a stranger moving through an ordinary evening.
But sometimes what you’re really noticing is a pattern your body already knows.
How to move without interrupting.
How to shrink just enough.
How to stay within the edges of space without ever testing where they actually are.
And once that recognition clicks, it’s hard to tell whether you saw them at all. Or just recognised yourself at a distance.
Posture: The Stories Our Bodies Tell Read More »
Women’s Day often celebrates a polished version of womanhood. This post looks at the everyday reality behind it: invisible work, mental load, quiet negotiations and the expectations women carry without applause. Everything that shapes what it means to be a woman today.
What It Actually Means to Be a Woman Today Read More »
These days you hear a lot about self care. There are scores of articles and social media posts devoted to the importance of self care and women, especially mothers talking about how they practice it. When I started reading about it, I wondered, “What exactly is self care?” The fluffy articles and most social posts
Am Am posing behind these leaves, am not hiding! However this picture reminded me of a discussion I had with my college girl gang. It was New Year’s Day and we were all sharing our family pics. I noticed that in all three photos shared, my friends were hiding. They were hidden behind the kids.
Am – #AtoZChallenge Read More »
A working mother can be competent, committed, and deeply loving, and still feel the quiet guilt of missing things, choosing things, and never being fully where she is expected to be.
The Guilt of a Working Mom Read More »
A WhatsApp conversation about body shapes and clothes becomes a larger question about how quickly women turn awareness into criticism, and why self-love needs more room than self-correction.
Self Love, Not Self Critique Read More »
