Celebrating a Socially Distanced Valentine's Day in 2021

Angela Kaufman
3 min readFeb 8, 2021

Valentine’s Day has been heavily commercialized over the centuries, like every holiday that has been watered down in service of the white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy. But if you really want to show someone special how much you love them this Valentine’s Day, remember to start by dismantling heteronormative traditions based on patriarchal ideals of coercion through gift giving.

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Angela Kaufman

Angela Kaufman is the author of Queen Up! Reclaim Your Crown When Life Knocks You Down. Her new novel Quiet Man, is available now through Trash Panda Press.