Creative Doctrine

I believe that inheritance is a theology learned long before it is understood.

I believe that girlhood is a form of devotion taught through observation, silence, obedience, and hunger.

I believe that family is the first church, and that many of us are wounded at its altar.

I believe that resentment and love are not opposites, but siblings raised in the same room.

I believe that what is buried is never finished speaking.

I believe that the body keeps commandments memory forgot.

I believe that survival is not a virtue, but a consequence.

I believe that naming a thing does not destroy it, it only removes its disguise.

I believe that devotion can be both holy and cannibalistic.

I believe that softness is not weakness and sharpness is not corruption, but adaptation.

I believe that women are taught to become vessels before they are taught to become beings.

I believe that mythology is simply memory that refused to stay private.

I believe that art is not confession alone—it is record, liturgy, and witness.

I believe that what we inherit does not define us completely, but it speaks through us until we answer it.

I believe that the work is not finished when it is published.

I believe the work is never finished.