What do you take when you can’t take anything? Mothers knew what they were doing when they handed down jewelry. For centuries, women stitched escape into their seams and wrapped freedom around their necks. A personal reflection on what’s passed down, what’s hidden in plain sight, and what women have always known: beauty is power.

The world loves to label us, but we’re fluid and amorphous. Constantly changing. We make jewelry that keeps up— not for who the world says you should be, but for who you already are (and all the selves still coming).