We Are Untethered

What happened to the ties that bound us?

Kerala Taylor
6 min readFeb 28

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It sounds dreamy, in a way, to be untethered. To roam at will, answering to no one, doing what I damn please.

At this stage in my life, I am rarely untethered — that is, in the liberating sense of the word. I have children and a partner. I roam with pattering feet in tow, answering to everyone, doing what I need to do to get through…

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Kerala Taylor

Award-winning writer. Interrupting notions of what it means to be a mother, woman, worker, and wife. Subscribe: https://keralataylor.substack.com