Caregivers play an essential role in the development of young brains and bodies that do not hold disdain for themselves.

What if every child believed that being “good” at a sport or activity—football, badminton, or ballet; break dancing, skateboarding, or curling; fencing, jumping rope, or juggling—means that you enjoy doing it?

True allyship lives in relationships, true solidarity requires giving up some comfort, material resources, and power—and sharing it with others.

Rather than viewing care work as characteristic of the noun “motherhood,” I now see it as the action of mothering, which includes anyone who is engaged in “the practice of creating, nurturing, affirming and supporting life.”

We are caught between how we were raised and how we really want to live. We should feel free rather than limited.

We have been trained to view our houses and apartments as private refuges, but they must also be seen for what they are: job sites where millions of dollars of the global economy are directly exchanged.

The division between home and work remains paramount to the system we live under.

Love is acts of attention,

We will always find ways to take care of one another. When we lean into this natural, unstoppable, and very human urge, the results are expansive. And I want more.