This piece on writingwomen.co talks about female friendships as “toolkits against patriarchal harms” and “meditative spaces for healing.”
A short extract:
“The most unusual characteristic about female friendships is that, unlike other bonds and relations, they don’t require an incubation period to develop. We as women connect instinctively at moments when making connections are the most difficult task otherwise- raising an eyebrow at each other after sensing the danger, holding hands while crossing roads, sending congratulatory messages after a scary presentation, offering sanitary napkins at the oddest moments; there is so much that women do for each other even without asking. The sense of doing it for the other and yet for ourselves, without any conditions and expectations has a deeply healing effect.”
Read the full article here.
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