2021: Mothering the Future

The mothers and the others who are tending the garden of what’s next

We can understand motherhood as a kind of relational askēsis, whose core is the attentive, attuned pattern-work of sustaining a child’s Umwelt while they are too young to do it themselves. This is a central reason why many women are willing to sacrifice social status and earning power to work part-time or stay at home with young children: it’s as satisfyingly rich in meaning-as-pattern as it is starved of social status and pecuniary reward. ~ Our Humanity Depends on the Things We Don’t Sell

As a woman in the world, I’ve thought about #womenswork my whole life and began writing about a framework for it in January 2018:

Women’s Work

The Looming Future of Women’s Work