I am a survivor, daughter of a survivor, and a woman raised under the umbrella of patriarchy, toxic masculinity, and misogyny now raising a daughter of my own. Since I was a child, the messaging I received around femininity has always felt in conflict with my own experience and expression of femininity. Femininity was always presented to me as ruffles and lace, bows with curls, charming giggles, politeness, restriction, submission, joyful - but femininity in me has never been that. Loud and expressive, rebellious and assertive, wild, boisterous, competitive, athletic, strong, and especially rage-filled; I have always felt most at home in the mess, in the space of undone. “Home in Her Self” is the physical representation of the rewriting of the narratives I inherited around femininity and serves as a reclamation of my feminine identity the way that I experience it - brave, raw, raging, and commanding.