#MeToo – You are a nothing

Run Me Down

February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 hgopinathan1 Comment

I look wistfully at the cute pair of neon running shorts with its matching tank top that I picked up from a big fitness brand store. An expensive waste, when I am fully aware, having have been told over and over, that if you want to run you can even do it in a salwar [...]

On why I don’t have a #MeToo story

October 6, 2018October 6, 2018 hgopinathan2 Comments

Trigger warnings: Sexual Abuse I wish I had someone famous to Pin my #MeToo story on. It would change the way we looked at the world. Industries would coin new laws, HR would introduce sensitivity Training, Parliament would pass a bill. But my secrets involve the Ordinary everyday. Fathers who thought you and Your five [...]

You are a nothing, my daughter accused me at age 4, when she found out at school that all her classmates’ mother’s had jobs that gave them important titles like banker, doctor, teacher. And such a blessing that has turned out to be that I don’t have one thing that defines me and nothingness offers me the space to be a homeschooling parent, an artist, a writer, story teller, a crocheter and everything else that comes with the territory of being a stay-at -home mom. Being a nothing keeps me out of trouble.