Card XXII: Medusa

Write with a steady gaze

(TW: this issue discusses rape. If that’s not something for you to read about right now, then it’s best to skip this issue, and we’ll see you next week.)

What if your writing did not seek permission to be believed?

What if you stopped allowing your story to be edited to make others more comfortable?

What if the gaze you’ve been taught to soften is the very thing that carries your power?

This is the spirit of Card XXII: Medusa, The Petrifier.

Medusa was never the monster. She was a woman altered by violence and then transformed again by story.