Maia Fields
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Maia Fields
read a substack called "i don't dream of marriage or motherhood" and it highlighted how you do not need to have a physical child to be a mother. you can nurture those around you and pour into communal spaces. children finding community within you, even if they're not yours. i think that's beautiful as someone who is firm on not having children in... See more
JACINDA 𓆩♱𓆪x.comWHEN I LOOK BACK AND think about my own reaction to impending motherhood, I can’t help but see that my extreme distress was informed by anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to be a mother and be happy at the same time. Though my mother had three children, something about dealing with them consistently had been anathema to her core identity, as if she
... See moreSarah Hoover • The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood
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.”
Angela Garbes • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
I know firsthand and broadly what happens when you push a baby out and aren’t ready to deliver the afterbirth. I know that sometimes you just bleed out.
Lessons in Procrastination by Giselle Vriesen — Breathing Space Creative
Lessons in Procrastination by Giselle Vriesen. https://www.breathingspacecreative.com/nourishing-word/lessons-in-procrastination-by-giselle-vriesen
I know firsthand and broadly what happens when you push a baby out and aren’t ready to deliver the afterbirth.
Lessons in Procrastination by Giselle Vriesen — Breathing Space Creative
Lessons in Procrastination by Giselle Vriesen. https://www.breathingspacecreative.com/nourishing-word/lessons-in-procrastination-by-giselle-vriesen
The women in my family aren’t big on climbing, they’re big on sitting down and pretending to be small. I come from two lines of racialized women raised on the notion that they don’t matter.
Lessons in Procrastination by Giselle Vriesen — Breathing Space Creative
Lessons in Procrastination by Giselle Vriesen. https://www.breathingspacecreative.com/nourishing-word/lessons-in-procrastination-by-giselle-vriesen
Writing stories as an escape is the most beautiful delusion because the more you practice it, the more authentic it feels. So, when I started writing as myself, for myself— truly, writing stopped being an escape and started to be a torture. Suddenly, the fictional characters I continued to create were experiencing hardships skin-close to home,... See more
Lessons in Procrastination by Giselle Vriesen — Breathing Space Creative
Lessons in Procrastination by Giselle Vriesen. https://www.breathingspacecreative.com/nourishing-word/lessons-in-procrastination-by-giselle-vriesen
I feel like writing is a form of evocation. To recall memory and explore the senses. You do not have to have lived a sensory to invoke it, you can understand through a lived life and similarities. I would also argue that writing is an evocation for it’s upheaval. To call upon Apollo or Dionysus or the muses. To call to any god or fragment of the
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