Eve Rodsky

I have a disabled autistic brother who gets a lot of our attention.

What didn't get attention was our kitchen.

There was garbage pouring out from a takeout bag that sat on a knob.

We'd never had a garbage can.

And it was the same thing every night.

If my brother wanted water and my mother was working late, I would help him and get him his water, close my eyes, go into our small kitchen, turn on the light, keep my eyes closed because I knew that was how the cockroaches and water bugs would scatter when the lights turned on.

Didn't want to see them.

Then went to go get the water.

and bring it to my brother.

So I think Seth had to understand my mother.

He feels a lot of empathy for my mother.

He feels empathy for me and my brother.

And so when he could start feeling empathy for the garbage and what it connoted, it was more than the garbage.

Yeah.

And schools, can you imagine what they do to women?

I mean, they no matter how many men put their names on first, and I asked so many men to do that.

they skip over their name and they, they call women.

And what do you do about that?

Like, do you put everybody on a group thread again?

I don't pick up when the school calls.