Anna Carnap

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Qualitative Forschung, Lehrerinnenbildung, Plattform-Praxis, Gender, Sorge und Profession // Humboldt Universität Berlin // doing difference in school & media (she/her)

Picture of book page 96: I stared moodily at nothing. No one had said either of those things to me—and no one, certainly no one, had mentioned how ugly childbirth could be, how gruesome and messy. If I was three ounces stupider, I might have expected the stork to drop a baby off at my doorstep, baked to perfection. Of course I'd known, in some rough practical sense, that my body would have to split open for a child to leave it, but I hadn't been remotely prepared for the bald terror of it; hadn't known that my softest and most private patch of skin would rip a full inch; hadn't known the delivery room would smell like iron from all the blood loss, not to mention literal human excrement. I felt like one of those teenage boys shipped off to Normandy for D-Day. From my position in the hospital bed, I kept staring wildly around with bright unseeing eyes, one half of my brain certain someone was going to swoop in and save me, heal me, wake me up from this terrible dream, and the other half certain I was already dead. "I don't want to go home." I hadn't meant to say it aloud, but there it was. My true thoughts, floating in the air-conditioned space between us.
Bild zeigt Text: Wissenschaft gegen Faschismus Bundesweiter Aufruf für wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzungen an Hochschulen in der Woche vom 01.-07.06. zu der Verantwortung der Wissenschaft angesichts der wachsenden faschistischen Gefahr.
Screenshot der Zeit Artikel Headline. 3 Kinder klettern an einer Wand hoch.