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An identity struggle

“Why do you go to court and complicate your life?” and I asked, “Why does my last name change but my husband’s stays the...

A short note on divorce and alimony

Alimony is a confession: It is the disclosure that women’s unpaid labor in marriage empowers men, while weakens and impoverishes women, and that men...

Checklist for womanhood: on marriage and motherhood

Society presents marriage and motherhood to women not as personal choices but as goals to achieve, and this sometimes causes women to give up...

How we get married, how we get divorced / Part 2 

Almost all of the narratives touch upon the pressure put on them by their families aside from the pressure by their partners, and occasionally...

How we get married, how we get divorced / Part 1

I started this research to create a space for women to share their divorce experiences, and how they reflect on these processes. During the...