The day my body became a person

What's up with calling my body, "her?"

In the fall of 2020, I found myself, like the rest of the world, reckoning with a rapidly-worsening pandemic after rapidly-loosened restrictions were lifted (for some of us). I also found myself living and learning in a L’Arche community. I was working full-time as a caregiver while also living in a home with the four people I supported, and with my fel…