In Defense of Motherhood
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In Defense of Motherhood
“Motherhood has a branding problem,” writes Katrina Onstad, a podcast producer and novelist. In her essay about “Nightbitch,” a dark comedy out just last week, Onstad says that the film could have offered “a primal scream for this moment of maternal ambivalence, a stark confessional delivered with a healthy dash of ‘The Substance’ shock value.”... See more
instagram.comA popular “mental load” influencer recently wrote:
“Having children disproportionately affects women.”
Y’all… why do we keep treating motherhood like a burden?
OF COURSE motherhood changes us. It shifts priorities, reorders time, and exposes us to sacrifice like... See more
Kelly Jacksonsubstack.comThe book also signals a way out of a prominent contemporary narrative in which women—usually white women—are portrayed as intellectually and creatively stifled by childbearing, and motherhood is characterized as an inherent threat to individual possibility. This narrative isn’t wrong; during the past nineteen months, I’ve had less time to work,... See more
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As a memoir writer, it’s my job to answer the question: What is it that I am feeling, exactly? Not what am I meant to feel, or what is it politic to feel, or what is it convenient to feel. As Hemingway says in Death in the Afternoon, the greatest difficulty in writing is “knowing truly what you really felt, rather than what you were supposed to
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