💛 Women’s History Month: The Stories We Carry

Women’s History Month isn’t remembering famous names in textbooks; it’s lifting up the stories that weren’t told. It’s about the labor, love, organizing, and art that kept entire communities running—even when those same women were erased from the credit.

This month—and every month—we celebrate women of all walks.
Because women aren’t a monolith. And strength doesn’t always look like what history books told us.

Lex front-left, in all black— Season 11 of The Blox, in Andrea Furtick’s pod. July 2023.

The Legacy We Live In

The very existence of Women’s History Month is political. It was born out of advocacy—after historians and educators pushed back on the erasure of women’s contributions in schools and media. Since then, the month has grown into an opportunity to ask:
Whose stories get told? And who gets left out?

Spoiler: it’s usually the queer ones. The Black ones. The disabled ones. The poor ones. The ones who weren’t quiet.

Let’s change that!

🧸 The Cozykins Story Is Women’s History

This brand began not in a boardroom, but on the floor of a home filled with kids, chronic illness, mental health wins and spirals, and the kind of radical love that refuses to shrink itself for comfort.

Cozykins was literally born from the mind and hands of a non-binary woman—Alex Berardi-Hawley—and built alongside their daughter, who helps create the slimes and sands for Dragon Dreams. It’s queer, woman-led, and woven with the core belief that softness is a strength—not a setback.
We don’t exist in spite of struggle. We exist because of it—and we carry that resilience forward! Cozykins exists as a community of unmasking, realness, raw life and beauty, thawing feelings, reciprocity; you are safe here.

Resilience Looks Like…

Women’s History Month often highlights firsts: the pioneers, the leaders, the barrier-breakers. But it also invites us to reflect on the everyday forms of resilience that rarely make headlines—the quiet, persistent kind that lives in routines, communities, and generations of care.

Resilience looks like women returning to art after trauma.
It looks like parents juggling unpaid care work while building small businesses in the margins of nap time.
It’s trans women living openly in a world that questions their right to exist.
It’s autistic femmes building mutual aid networks and storytelling platforms.
It’s grandmothers showing up to school board meetings and protests with the same hands that once held entire families together.

And sometimes, resilience means slowing down!
It means acknowledging exhaustion.
It means choosing rest, not retreat—because even strength has limits, and honoring those limits takes wisdom.

This month isn't merely a tribute to action—it’s a space for reflection.
For recognizing the women who have carried entire systems without recognition.
For naming the labor that’s been invisible for too long.

The stories we carry aren’t only about grit—they’re about recovery, softness, and sustainable community care. At Cozykins, we hold space for all of it: the loud moments and the quiet ones. The sparks and the stillness.

This month, we invite you to do the same. Reflect. Rest. Reach out.
And remember: legacy isn’t only built in motion. It’s also shaped in the pause.

A Few Women We Love (Now & Always):

• Angela Davis – for teaching us that radical change is a collective act

• Frida Kahlo – for painting pain into power

• Marsha P. Johnson – for reminding us that trans women are the backbone of liberation

• Sophie Taeuber-Arp – for showing that art and play can be revolutionary

• Octavia Butler – for writing the future before we were ready

• Your mom, your neighbor, your younger self – because everyday women are history

Cozy Calls You In

As a woman-led, queer business, we don’t celebrate Women’s History Month because it’s trendy.

We do it because it’s sacred.
Because we know what it feels like to be overlooked.
Because we believe in building something so cozy it makes the world feel possible again.

So, here’s your invitation:
Honor your own story. Uplift another woman’s name. Speak up when it counts.
And if you can’t find a soft place to land?
Build one. We’ll help!

Cozy isn’t quiet. Cozy carries the fire.
Thanks for carrying it with us! 💛
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