Niina Pollari / sadreads: "Leave: A Postpartum Account by Shayne Terry. It’s out in February from Autofocus, and it details the author’s traumatic injury during the birth of her son, and her fury at the ways this trauma — a third-degree tear — derailed her expectations of what birth and maternity leave were supposed to look like."
"If you’re into thinking about intergenerational trauma and the subjective experience of motherhood, or if you’re angry about all the ways the medical system fails us (as so many of us are, these days), pick this one up"