As I age, the more convinced I am that the concept of “normal” is the most toxic thing in our culture.

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

Believing in the inherent value of your body—and yourself—is a tricky act in modern America, where we are expected to work a paid job in order to “earn a living.”

Are there tensions? Yes. But there is also dependability, trust, and support that is easily asked for and offered.

Domestication moved people away from communal living and removed the social and connective aspects of all labor.

Let’s raise our children to know these things in their bones and cells, their meat and marrow, have it be part of them. For that understanding to be so strong that it cannot be undone by the colonial and capitalist systems that will insist their worth is how much they can produce, how thin their bodies are, how dedicated to work they are. So strong

Reimagining our approach to mothering can birth its transformative potential. Day in and day out, this work can be our most consistent, embodied resistance to patriarchy, white supremacy, ableism, and the exploitation that underlies American capitalism.

The economy could stand to bend to the will of decency and care. What if we built a system that lets us actually care for the people who care for us?

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