Trick's Tales

You are a tradwife. You’ve given up your career to invest in your feminine energy. Your husband is providing for you; you’re living a beautiful, soft life; and your kids are just so photogenic. Thank goodness nothing could possibly go wrong.

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I've been back in the US for a few months now. I had my goodbye party in Austria on July 4th, and left the next day to come back to the US after four years in Austria. It's been a hard thing to articulate to non-Americans what the political atmosphere is like here at the moment. It's been a hard thing to articulate it to myself. This is perhaps an attempt to do both, and to find a path through somehow to a better future.

I finally finished the 4th book of the Neapolitan Novels series by Elena Ferrante (otherwise known as the My Brilliant Friend series). To transform my impressions and emotions about that series into cold hard words on a page almost feels obscene, but she so accurately captures those fleeting vividnesses into the written form that I feel I should endeavor to do the same. Unfortunately she's significantly better at that whole thing than me, so just bear with me lol.

Collages by me. L: Gods and Masters (2025). R: Untitled A4 (2024).