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Journal of Skvader

Transsexual memoir and natural history from the Pacific Northwest.

Ecdysis

Field note 001 Ecdysis. From the Greek ekdysis. A getting out.The process by which an animal sheds its outer layer to allow for growth.The shed form holds the shape of what was. Perfectly. Completely.The animal does not look back at it.The animal does not know what mourning is. The evergreens. Conifers standing in the snow…

Hands Inside the River

A reflection on what it means to mother, to grieve, to fish, and to feel death not as absence but as sacred presence. I never thought motherhood would find me. Not in the way people imagine with cribs and lullabies and baby showers. But it showed up in my body and in the way I…

  • Ecdysis
    Field note 001 Ecdysis. From the Greek ekdysis. A getting out.The process by which an animal sheds its outer layer to allow for growth.The shed form holds the shape of what was. Perfectly. Completely.The animal does not look back at it.The animal does not know what mourning is. The evergreens. Conifers standing in the snow… Read more: Ecdysis
  • Hands Inside the River
    A reflection on what it means to mother, to grieve, to fish, and to feel death not as absence but as sacred presence. I never thought motherhood would find me. Not in the way people imagine with cribs and lullabies and baby showers. But it showed up in my body and in the way I… Read more: Hands Inside the River
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