Performing Motherhood
As I think about what I am writing I feel pulled to self-identify my position, like I use to a lifetime ago when the work of Patricia Hill Collins and Dorothy Smith started to shape how I understand womanhood. I’m a white middle-class cis woman who, in my parenting (as in all parts of my life), navigates the influence of social norms, the needs of my family, my own gut, and more often now, my own needs. This is hard to talk about because well, it feels risky. And it’s possibl
