*Roll Call!* Please introduce yourselves!

We are 3 months and 3 installments into this journey of MOULTING! Woohoo! Thank you to those of you who’ve subscribed and to those of you who comment and send me feedback. I love reading your thoughtful comments. I’d love for this place to be a bit more than me rambling and putting my monthly creations out for you to consume. I’d love for this space to be a place where you can share something too. I’d love for this space to be a place where we get to know each other better.

So, I’d like to use this post as an opportunity to do just that - get to know each other! Please introduce yourself and tell me where you live (or your journey, if home is complicated) and what minor character you have loved in stories and why. Who knows, I may do an installment of one of them in the MOULTING series! :)

As for me, I was always a quiet kid and always lived in the shadow of my older brother. My family very much adhered to the Korean way of prioritizing the first born son in the family, prioritizing a son over a daughter. Being born a woman automatically made me less than. So I am always drawn to the women characters who, while perhaps not taking the center stage of the story, usually do something to push back against a hierarchy that chooses to overlook them. Rather than sitting with them on my own, I decided to share them here, in case others resonate with them too.

I’m going to leave you with an old photo of me capturing a moment when I wasn’t in the margins or in the shadows. This was a moment from my childhood in Kenya and my older brother is the one standing in the background. :)

Ok, your turn!