Making Right AKA call your mother

Society wants piety and quiet devotion, and for me to be content with a month of platitudes. They don’t want to hear about the yawning gaps in our social welfare and security systems. They especially don’t want to talk about actually compensating the unpaid labour of pregnancy. They don’t want to hear about the links between motherhood and long-term adverse health outcomes for women. They don’t want to hear about what it means to be poor and hungry, and raising children.… Read More Making Right AKA call your mother

Mother-Friendly

Maybe it’s the spirit of tough love tacitly encouraged by the BFHI. Maybe it’s the health system still recovering from the damage wrought by COVID-19. In this story, I saw a little bit of my own lonely, isolated moments of motherhood reflected. A combination of a system that assumes there is a singular way to teach mothers to feed their children, and a society that expects so much of mothers and asks that we bear the burden of tasks in private, in silence. … Read More Mother-Friendly