Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female

Really enjoyed MacDonald's writing, how playful she got with language by turns, while also keeping space for clearly communicating anger and trauma and vulnerability and hope and empowerment. A collection of essays and poetry reflecting on walking as a woman, as a disabled person with degenerative disc disease and chronic pain, as an assault survivor, on walking with with other women, on her mother's walking, on nature encountered while walking. Also includes what I would frame as multimedia elements, non fiction pieces in creative formats. 

⚠️references to sexual assault, no recounting of assault, though situations where women felt unsafe are recounted, as well as those encountering public masturbators; ableism; mental health concerns i.e. trauma, panic attacks; discussion of 2020 events: pandemic, Islamophobic murder and residential school grave discoveries; animal death