Taking Care, Vogue March 2013

This month Vogue featured a story about a mother whose son is terminally ill with Tay-Sachs. I was unfamiliar with the disease, but the article made it easy to understand, it wasn't full of medical jargon which I really liked.

I used to read Vogue religiously when i was in high school but once I got to college I had to take a break from things I wanted to read and read things I HAD to. Luckily, this weekend I was able to buy a copy of this months Vogue and re-immerse myself in one of my favorite magazines.

The glossy advertisements and the pages filled with the latest fashion trends is what attracts me to the magazine but this month was different. As i flipped through the pages i came across a three page feature about a strong mother about to lose her son. It really made me love the magazine even more. This women wasn't a model or a fashion designer, just a women with a sick baby. Many other magazines focus on this as well, strong independent women and their story, however, i don't remember vogue taking this angle when i used to tread it all the time. It was really refreshing and inspiring.

The article itself was written in the mothers perspective, Emily Rapp, and was actually an excerpt from her book The Still Point of the Turing World. The way she describes her feelings and her actions made me feel them as well. They were incredibly descriptive and really highlighted her exact emotions. She describes cowering in a corner with him trying to protect him from the disease as if it were a predator, she tells about how she stumbled over a moment of happiness occasionally. Rapp is a great writer. I would love to read the full book and hopefully when I have time I can add it to my long list of books I want to read.

I think its great that vogue would cover a story like this in their magazine, it makes the magazine more relatable. Very few people can afford the clothes and designers the magazine feature, it's part of why I love the magazine, it's an escape from reality, a fantasy, covering  such a real and relatable story makes the magazine even better.

I was unable to find the article "Taking Care" online, it is in the March 2013 copy of Vogue.