Week Three: Desire As Compass

If you’re here, you’ve done something extraordinary. You’ve looked at your performances. You’ve let something die, you’ve practiced strategic neglect and you have withdrawn your energy from things that don’t deserve it.

And now you’re standing in the space you created. The space where the dead things used to be. The space where you used to spend all your energy maintaining corpses.

And you’re probably thinking: now what?

This week, we’re going to answer that question.

Not with another list of things to do, nor with a new performance to master. But with a question so simple and so terrifying that most women spend decades avoiding it:

What do you actually want?

Not what you should want. Not what would be sensible to want. Not what you’ve trained yourself to want because the real thing seemed too much to ask for. Not what your mother wanted for you, what your partner needs from you, what your children expect from you, what society tells you a woman your age sho…