Sonia Ashe

Modge Podge Mama

As a young girl, I was fascinated by stories of strong females throughout history. In the days before the internet, I would scour through large colorfully illustrated encyclopedias on my living room floor and fawn over stories of Cleopatra or Harriet Tubman. Even when I was a child, it was clear I had to look harder to find stories detailing women’s achievements. Still, it was always worth the search. I enjoyed thinking of them as guides along my path. I wanted to grow up to be the kind of woman they wrote about in those big books.