What a beautiful examination of the trauma of early motherhood. These lines in particular: "The subtle, slow violence enacted on women by way of the institution of American motherhood." EXACTLY. and "what if motherhood is a form of haunting, communion with ghosts of our former selves, blocked from them as we are by this new, lonely, all-encompassing labor?" Perfection.
What a beautiful examination of the trauma of early motherhood. These lines in particular: "The subtle, slow violence enacted on women by way of the institution of American motherhood." EXACTLY. and "what if motherhood is a form of haunting, communion with ghosts of our former selves, blocked from them as we are by this new, lonely, all-encompassing labor?" Perfection.