5 Things About Me That I Let My Daughter See

I hope she sees a woman unafraid of the shadows

Savala Nolan
Human Parts
Published in
6 min readNov 29, 2022

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A young girl holding a sparkler at night
Photo by Zara Walker on Unsplash

I believe in the adage you can’t be what you can’t see. So I make a point to let my daughter see these five things:

  1. My Body Unadorned

Getting dressed, thin, wintry morning light slanting through the window and illuminating my freckles, stretch marks, a long…

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Savala Nolan
Human Parts

uc berkeley law professor and essayist @ vogue, time, harper’s, NYT, NPR, and more | Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins | she/her | IG @notquitebeyonce