The Word They Used to Silence Women — And How We're Taking It Back
Gossip. Gossib. Godsib. The same word — and the meaning was changed on purpose.
Before gossip became something shameful, it meant godsib: God's sibling. Your circle. The women who gathered around you when you gave birth, who cooked and held and stayed.
That tradition was deliberately dismantled — and we are reclaiming it.
In this final episode of the Maternal Mental Health Month series, I sit down with artist Sanne Freijdag, whose project the Gossib Gathering is doing exactly that: bringing women together over fabric, stitching, and the kind of honest conversation that happens when your hands…
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