Shannon Brugh is a writer, feminist, and mother primarily writing about parenthood, feminism, and fluidity within gender and sexuality. In addition to her contributions to Luna Luna Magazine, some of her writing has appeared in Brain, Child Magazine, Huffington Post, The Manifest-Station, SheKnows, Your Tango, and Smarty Mommies, where she is also the co-founder. She currently lives in Seattle, WA with her husband and two young sons.
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When A Broken Child Can Still Become A Whole Adult
It was raining and I was sitting in the backseat of my mother’s grey Buick, watching the water cascade down the window like someone else’s sorrow splayed for me to notice. Already, I understood isolation and the pain that comes with not belonging, and the understanding that comes when others see you as a monster, a thing, a weirdness in the world. I was five-years-old, waiting for my sister to rush into our car excitedly from school. I begrudgingly went to nursery school, crying every morning. If you asked me why I feared other children so much, I could not tell you. I still cannot.
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How I Taught My Daughters About Their Vaginas
I fumbled my way through a long saga about ovaries and eggs and periods, with a brief cameo from semen and sperm. I must have confused some details about fallopian tubes, because Ava left to fetch The Period Book so we could refer to its helpful diagram of female reproductive organs. This led to Carmen examining the labeled drawing of the vagina and asking me where the pee came out.
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