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The Caregiving Economy - The Atlantic theatlantic.comRead: www.theatlantic.com
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🔖📚 🍿 Some good things I’ve read so far today:
- Revisiting The Flight of Dragons, a Forgotten Gem of ’80s Fantasy (Tor.com)
- How Harrow the Ninth Uses the Language of Fanfiction to Process Grief (Tor.com)
- “What did I know of mortal babies?”: Six Parenthood Lessons From CIRCE (Book Riot)
- Out of the Closet and Out of Time: On Being an Old(ish) Mother (Literary Hub)
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Portrait of the Mother as an Artist – Guernica guernicamag.comRead: www.guernicamag.com
To think of the mother as artist does not necessitate a conflict, nor does it require a choice between passive domestic surrender or total domestic rejection, although for a long time the world demanded that it did. Such frames only reinforce hierarchies, limit her to merely a fragment when, of course, she is com posed of many pieces.
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Craft — a designation used to subjugate many art-making practices that have been the domain of women: needlepoint, pottery, quilt making. With their connections to the home, these mediums have been historically dismissed, supposedly lacking the rigor and intellectual complexity of high art.
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“I have drawn my children and painted them endlessly and I cannot distinguish them from my soul…"
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she sometimes wonders why an artist must inhabit turmoil or drama to be taken seriously.
🔖💻 Read Why bad technology dominates our lives, according to Ron Norman. If you didn’t already believe we were living in the Matrix, this article will convince you we are.
🔖📝 The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer ‹ Literary Hub
if you’ve read a book penned by a woman with young children recently, there’s a significant chance it was written while hiding, losing sleep, or using inventive distractions. (Or even all three.)
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The Public Writing Life: How to Lose an Editor in Five Days katieroseguestpryal.com
🔖Read Ravynn K. Stringfield’s essay, Bullet Journaling to Save a Life. Beautiful.
Through these grinding 18 months, we’ve managed our kids’ lives as best we could while abandoning our own.
there is no separation between mother and writer, nor can I tease apart the time I spend tending to my child from the time I spend thinking about my writing, or actually doing it.
Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood 🔖📚💬
🔖📚 Sara Fredman’s How Motherhood Helped Me Reject the ‘Father Tongue’ of Academia is both about writing the kind of thing I want to write and is itself the kind of thing I want to write.