Dominique Matti

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Thanks for the kind words!

Yes and no. I’m saying that most women are socialized to give men the impression that they don’t have needs at all, lest they be perceived as “needy.” Even when expressed tidily, a woman expressing too many needs to a man who is “good” is often perceived to be ungrateful or “nagging.”

I had a recurring nightmare that my oven was full of mice that kept on multiplying.

I recognized so much of myself in this piece. I totally suffer from grey-area depression. It feels like haunting my own house. And then it lifts. Wild how it manages to sneak up on us no matter how long we’ve lived with it. And how we write narratives for it, try to make sense of it. I thought mine began in high school until I found a poem I wrote…

I’m back to brown now! My pregnant head rejected the color and it all came out within weeks 😩. The baby is 11 weeks now and I’m in that sleep deprived pj-wearing identityless state, plotting on tattoos.

I went hot pink and lavender just after I found out I was pregnant with my second. I feel this.

Thanks so much, Ezinne! I hope your year rules, and I’m looking forward to everything you create. 💕

Thanks so much Sherry! And you’re so right. Some days I’m sure it’s the depression and other days I’m like “wait — my toddler was up until 4AM because of those evil molars breaking through, and now he’s screaming at me all day because he’s tired” and yes, god bless microwave rice-a-roni. forever and ever amen.

Thanks for thinking of me, Oliver! Internally, things are slowly but surely getting better, though 2016 has been circumstantially stressful as hell for me and mine. But my needs are met and I’m surrounded by a lot of love and always grateful.

I’m just quietly working on taking control back of what I can control — which is…

I got so confused when I saw the name Dom, that’s my nickname. In a sleep deprived haze I was like “did I just get hacked and comment on my own work?”