the importance of voice

Breaking from my regular schedule here. I love talking about writing and all the joys that writing brings. One of the most wonderful things about writing is getting to use your own voice. Voices carry such power.

This week, we listened to Britney Spears use hers. She's been silenced for so long. Denied autonomy and agency in her own life. It's outrageously upsetting.

I don't have anything to add because we've heard Britney in her own words.

I was told right now in the conservatorship, I’m not able to get married or have a baby, I have a IUD inside of myself right now so I don’t get pregnant. I wanted to take the IUD out so I could start trying to have another baby. But this so called team won’t let me go to the doctor to take it out because they don’t want me to have children any more children. So basically, this conservatorship is doing me way more harm than good.

I deserve to have a life. I’ve worked my whole life. I deserve to have a two to three year break and just, you know, do what I want to do. But I do feel like there is a crunch here. And I feel open and I’m okay to talk to you today about it. But I wish I could stay with you on the phone forever, because when I get off the phone with you, all of a sudden all I hear all these knows — no, no, no. And then all of a sudden I get I feel ganged up on and I feel bullied and I feel left out and alone. And I’m tired of feeling alone. I deserve to have the same rights as anybody does, by having a child, a family, any of those things, and more so.

I stand with Britney and fully support her right to live her life on her own terms. #FreeBritney