Thoughts on Antigone, if you have any? It’s a story that has stuck with me for years.

the tragedy precedes antigone herself. i mean that her narrative is one we've seen before: it's from the hebrew bible. in 2 sam 21, rizpah, a concubine of king saul, sprawls herself in the elements to protect the rotting corpses of her sons and grandsons following their impalement by king david. unallowed to perform kispum (funerary rites), she can at least let them decay naturally. rizpah is a matrix, not a sister (as antigone is), but nonetheless makes visible how the feminine body bends under the burden of mourning, of vigil. makes visible, even, that femininity is that vigil, or one like it