Embrace the Vibe With Me: Jam Girl Summer

You Don’t Have to Be a Tradwife to Want a Slow, Beautiful Life

I've been thinking about the aesthetics that come with politics these days. My feed is full of tradwife-pipeline pink pill content. Including one that gets my goat every time: “Imagine how much propaganda it took to convince an entire generation that this (mothering a baby) is oppressive.” (No one did that girlies.)

I’ve talked a lot about how there is an organized political movement that is bringing tradwives and soft life to our digital doorstep. Women who present traditional homemaking as the ultimate feminine calling, complete with pretty dresses, homemade bread, and total submission to their husbands. What looks like innocent lifestyle content is actually part of an organized political movement designed to make patriarchy look cozy and appealing. Because politics is downstream from culture. The vibes that influence how we act and live.

But there's also a reason women are drawn to slow living right now, there’s a reason they are falling down the rabbit hole of chicken coops and home…