Alicia Wallace
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The Map I Carry
The Map I Carry: A Career Mum’s Story There are maps no one teaches you how to read. Not the type made of streets or contour lines, but the kind stitched quietly into your bones maps of survival, motherhood, culture, work, grief, and the versions of yourself you lose and find along the way. If you asked me to point to all the places I’ve been on a page, I wouldn’t know where to begin. But if you asked me what it has felt like to live as a career mum a woman trying to build a life, raise children, and carry culture while navigating systems not designed for us then I could show you every corner of that map.
By Alicia Wallace2 months ago in Families
Grandma June
As I look out the car window on my way to grandmas funeral I am in disbelief she has gone. Grandma June wasn’t like your everyday grandma, she was a savage. I remember in my early 20s, I dated an older male whose name was Roger who started to control me, stalk me and became physically abusive. I found myself avoiding my family, friends and if I did leave the house I would cover up, wear oversized sunnies and be easily startled. Roger would make threats to kill my family and I, he would even threaten to kill my cat if we had an argument. I lost who I was, I became emotionally numb. The physical pain inflicted on me no longer hurt, the mental and emotional abuse started to become like a routine that the words he would say was as if it was scripted. I never had the courage to leave because this was my norm. I didn’t care what pain I endured, I just knew that if I left and he inflicted pain on my family that it would break me, I wanted to protect them.
By Alicia Wallace5 years ago in Criminal
