Alli Hartley-Kong is a playwright, poet and museum digital strategist based out of northern New Jersey. Her writing has appeared in Smithsonian and Hyperallergic, and her plays and monologues have been produced by professional and regional theatres such as Single Carrot Theatre, the Barn Theatre, Irvington Theatre and Carlow Little Theatre. Her goal in her creative writing is to amplify and bring out of the shadows the very real issues that women's bodies endure.
In a previous life, I was a 1920s farmwife. I don’t mean reincarnation—I mean as the education director of a living historical farm, I spent most of my days in a 1920s costume leading children through activities. While taking…