Ask Mona (Almost) Anything: 1

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Tell me Mona how do you cultivate joy in your life whilst confronting the fuckery? Are you able to do the despair and rage as well as the joy? —@KaamaJoy

Hello Kama Joy and thank you for your question. Every morning I wake up convinced that today is the day I will destroy patriarchy. And every night I go to sleep knowing that patriarchy will most likely outlive me. And the intervening hours between waking and sleeping remind me that joy is found not in the absence of fuckery, but despite it, in spite of it, and to spite it. I rage and rage but never despair.

How come, you might ask.