What Galentine’s Means to Me
In the year after the Barbie Movie, Galentines is a day of inclusion far more than it is exclusion.
Photo by Lumiere Photography
It’s only the best day of the year!
Galentine’s is fun, not because it’s a “no boys allowed” club, but because it celebrates femininity. It celebrates girlhood, the importance of things the world considers frivolous, the divine feminine, the sisterhood that we all crave. No matter what gender identity or sexual orientation you claim, there’s something in us that wants connection, deep friendship, encouragement, and acceptance.
More often than not, bringing masculine energy into the world and my work really benefits me. The strength, action, logic, and rationality is what typically earns me a paycheck, and what gets me pats on the back. And while it’s not bad to be living in this masculine energy, we can thank blame the patriarchy for the way it is more often rewarded and respected than it’s feminine counterpart.
Enter: Galentines Day.
Though I lament the fact we limit this to holidays and special events, it feel luxurious, energizing, and incredibly FUN when the feminine is what it encouraged, recognized, respected, and celebrated. In a room where feminine energy is buzzing, creativity explodes, support for one another is at an all time high, and beauty is created because it is valued and celebrated.
There’s very few rules.
I love how women of different ages, ethnicities, cultural traditions gather under this banner of “gals”. Some come to the party in fancy pink and red fluffy dresses, and others come in sexy black ensembles with runway makeup, and others come in whatever they were wearing to work, and others come in torn jeans and a baggy shirt. It’s all good. It’s all welcome. It’s all encompassed in the women in the room: the complex, beautiful, brilliant, feminine spirit.
Why?
So gather. Create. Talk. Throw some bow and hearts on things if you feel like it.
Maybe you cannot find yourself excited about this day, and that’s OK. It’s why not every day has to be Galentine’s day. I want to celebrate with you any day you’ll let me.
xx
Hannah
Photo by Lumiere Photography
