MOURNING, MAGIC, MILK
MOURNING, MAGIC, MILK
MOURNING, MAGIC, MILK
Babies come from somewhere else, they are closer to whatever it is... where we come from and where we’ll go; they are a lot closer in those years ...and they are taught to forget, says Nan Goldin.
Babies come from somewhere else, they are closer to whatever it is... where we come from and where we’ll go; they are a lot closer in those years ...and they are taught to forget, says Nan Goldin.
Babies come from somewhere else, they are closer to whatever it is... where we come from and where we’ll go; they are a lot closer in those years ...and they are taught to forget, says Nan Goldin.
As a new mother, it feels like you remember what you were taught to forget.
As a new mother, it feels like you remember what you were taught to forget.
As a new mother, it feels like you remember what you were taught to forget.
By watching your baby grow, you re-experience your childhood, yet you become even more adult. This paradox is some sort of madness. In addition, you re-experience what your mother experienced with you.
By watching your baby grow, you re-experience your childhood, yet you become even more adult. This paradox is some sort of madness. In addition, you re-experience what your mother experienced with you.
By watching your baby grow, you re-experience your childhood, yet you become even more adult. This paradox is some sort of madness. In addition, you re-experience what your mother experienced with you.
You step in your mother’s shoes and your child becomes you.
You step in your mother’s shoes and your child becomes you.
You step in your mother’s shoes and your child becomes you.
And then again, just as babies are taught to forget, you as a mother are taught to forget too; all those challenges of a newborn are forgotten. As a mother, you are a reborn. With everything you gain and lose, you become a new you.
And then again, just as babies are taught to forget, you as a mother are taught to forget too; all those challenges of a newborn are forgotten. As a mother, you are a reborn. With everything you gain and lose, you become a new you.
And then again, just as babies are taught to forget, you as a mother are taught to forget too; all those challenges of a newborn are forgotten. As a mother, you are a reborn. With everything you gain and lose, you become a new you.
You double; both as your baby and as your mother. You become a double portrait. A full circle.
You double; both as your baby and as your mother. You become a double portrait. A full circle.
You double; both as your baby and as your mother. You become a double portrait. A full circle.
I don’t have a feminist theory of motherhood. I have only these notes, these paragraphs, some insights... hoping to make sense of it all some day later... And too much suffocation. Too many contradictions. So that when a woman is finally free of her children’s needs, she wants to forget. – Susan Griffin, 1974
I don’t have a feminist theory of motherhood. I have only these notes, these paragraphs, some insights... hoping to make sense of it all some day later... And too much suffocation. Too many contradictions. So that when a woman is finally free of her children’s needs, she wants to forget. – Susan Griffin, 1974
I don’t have a feminist theory of motherhood. I have only these notes, these paragraphs, some insights... hoping to make sense of it all some day later... And too much suffocation. Too many contradictions. So that when a woman is finally free of her children’s needs, she wants to forget. – Susan Griffin, 1974
the (m)other left
the (m)other left
the (m)other left