#Mothering

Alicia A. Wallace

I don't want to have children for many reason. One of them is that I had a lot of mothers in my life. I endured a lot of mothering. So

I don’t want to date anymore men reinforcing beliefs that turn my love into mothering. There’s so much about loving men that’s actually blatant mothering, which in the long run

Irritated Furiosa

Happy Mother's Day, everyone. To those who are mothers, have mothers, hope to be mothers someday. To those who have lost mothers, found mothers, freed themselves from harmful mothers, or

penny wit da henny

I think it’s 2 things:1. Motherhood is hard and if you learned it early on you can cope better (especially depending on the coping skills you saw)2. If what you

One under-discussed emotional aspect of the dialogue between older and young women about feminism is the irritation older women experience watching young women go through the process of fully grokking

As someone who was raised by a single mother and a grandmother, who worked together as a unit (along with wider family/community) to raise us, it's so interesting watching discussions

Marita Hennessy

"If you're any one of those things, you count less as a person. If you're all of those things, you just don't count, except as a statistic"#stigma #oppression #inequality #fatbodies

Raven Symoné's PB&J Sandwich 🇵🇷

_ItsMarisWorld_

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms, step-moms, bonus moms, surrogate moms, stepped-up moms and exhausted mommy villages!! Special love to the ones with complicated moms, missing moms, angel moms

It’s Mother’s Day and I don’t talk to my mom. I’m okay with that. When I tell people why people generally gasp in horror. It’s okay if you don’t talk

Mx. Dianna E. Anderson

diannaeanderson

the first thing to know about TERFs is that they believe trans men/AFAB non-binary people don’t exist, at least not *really*. We’re just poor victims of social contagion, unable to

mother's day is filled with sentiments about perfect, wonderful, amazing moms. but here's a shout out to the flawed mothers, the fallible mothers, the mothers who sometimes feel like they

Juana Hayde Espinoza

Thanks to the Internet, I still have records of exactly what you said to me & I can be mad at you all over again.First of all, it's passersby. Secondly,

(((Dominique Fisherwoman))) 💙

A long time ago I tried committing s****** when my ex cheated on me with a woman he met at a club and later moved in with her. My family

Room of One's Own Bookstore

A lot of folks raised themselves. A lot of mothers are childless. A lot of mothers have been incarcerated &or sterilized & told their personhood & motherhood are not sacred.Are

The affective power of the mothers’ group singing lullabies and standing before the police relies on white women’s innocence and the sancitity of white motherhood as its driving force. It’s

A few notes on The Creation of Patriarchy, by Gerda Lerner.Bipedalism and upright posture led to smaller hips, causing humans to be born "premature", in order to facilitate birth, dexterity