Jennifer Case, A Reading from We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood Nicole Graev Lipson, A Reading from Mothers and Other Fictional Characters Siobhan Lyons, A Reading from Brackish Baby: A Novel
Ann W. Duncan, “Motherhood, Education, and Gender Specific Incarceration” (online) Megan Foster, “Techniques of Terror: Stories of Black (Un)mothering in the U.S. Carceral State” (online) Robyn Guillen, “Mothering from Afar: Examining the Challenges and Impacts of Juvenile Girl Incarceration on Mothers in Louisiana”
Weronika Zielińska, “Motherhood and Art: A Case Study of a Reading and Discussion Group with Art Academy Students” Zuzana Štefková, “Venus Meets the Cyborg Mother: Therapeutic Reconciliation of Caesarean Birth in Petra Janda's ‘Empresses’” Dominique Rey, “MOTHERGROUND: The Creative Labor of Art and Motherhood”
Prathana D, “Exploring the Role of Instagram in Shaping Mothers’ Decisions on Milk Sharing and Wet Nursing Practices” (online) Favour Esinam Normeshie, “Breast Pumps and the Paradox of Maternal Labor: Expanding Caregiving Networks and Commodifying Breast Milk” Johanna Kirk, “Pregnant Body as Choreographic Site/Sight” (online
Maaya Modha-Patel, “‘I just need a minute’: Exploring the Effects of a 5-week Online Mindfulness Course on the Perinatal Mental Health Outcomes of a Group of Black Pregnant Women” (online), Meghan L. Green and Crystasany R. Turner, “‘One Day My Soul Just Opened Up’: Reconceptualizing the Radical Future of Black Motherscholarship” Kara Roop Miheretu, “Multicultural Mothering Amid White Supremacy” Sarah Knor, “Interrogating Maternal Rhetorics (online)
Leah Fulton, “Ebony Moms in the Ivory Tower: A Historical Examination of Black Mothers in Academia” Prilly Bicknell-Hersco “Millennial Mothering: A Black Mother Scholars Auto-Ethnographic Exploration in Academia” Maria Collier de Mendonça and Camila Infanger “Engaging with Matricentric Feminism, Motherhood Studies, and Mothering in Brazilian Academia”
I am a professor at the Department of Communication and at the Graduate Program in Communication of the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), in Recife, a city in the Northeast of Brazil.I am the leader of the Mothering, Media and Childhood Extension Project (@mmi.ufpe).In my PhD... Read More →
Barb Buckner Suárez, “What's So Bad About ‘Mommy Brain?’ The Negative Implications of Ignoring the Upside” Jesmin Akter, “How Does the Stigma Surrounding Mental Health Issues Affect Help-seeking Behaviors, Such as Counseling, Among Parenting International Graduate Students?” Fiona Woollard, “What Makes me a Mother: Can Maternal Identities Be Emancipatory Without Losing All Meaning?” (online)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The museum will host a free Juneteenth celebration with performances, art-making, and a talk. https://www.mfa.org/event/open-house/juneteenth Embrace Ideas Festival: This multi-day festival will take place June 18–20, 2025. The theme is "Inspiring the Resistance: Building a Culture of Repair for the Origins of our Discontent.” https://www.embraceboston.org/embrace-ideas-festival Museum of African American History: The museum will host a Juneteenth Community Day Celebration. https://www.meetboston.com/events/holidays/juneteenth https://www.bu.edu/articles/2024/how-to-celebrate-juneteenth-this-year/
Asmi Basu, “Ungrateful Mothers: Understanding Mothers Beyond Motherhood with Reference to Selected Indian Films of Late 20th and 21st Century” (online?)
Marta Miquel-Baldellou, “Revisiting the Multiple Identities of the Monstrous Mother through the Patriarchal Gaze in Matt Sobel’s Goodnight Mommy” (online), Sarah Knor, “Interrogating Maternal Rhetorics (online)
Madhurima Guha, “‘Ae Hero Dega? [Hey Hero! Wanna give it to me?]’: Understanding the New Language of Dissent of the Vulnerable Grotesque Grandmother in Devashish Makhija’s Ajji (2017)” Katherine Wardi-Zonna, “Theorizing and Narrativizing the Motherline” (online) Soulafreda Hantes, “Behind the Crisis: A Historical Analysis of Maternal Employment and Childcare in the United States”
McKenna Middleton, “The Phantasmagoria of Maternal Memory in Carmen Martín Gaite’s Lo raro es vivir” Karisa Shiraki, “A Labor of Love: Memory Work and Storytelling in the Home” (online) Mariona Visa, “Voices of a Silenced Generation: Older Women’s Untold Stories of Motherhood”
Jillayna Adamson, “The First Lesson of a Collective Dream: Moms are Dreaming their Way to Basic Needs, Envisioning a Future that Supports Mothering” MJ Cortes, “I Came Here with Books You’ve Never Heard of: On being a Latin American Feminist in a Canadian Women’s Studies Graduate Program”
