Half our holidays are punitive, at least for those left out of what the the holiday is supposed to celebrate. Then there’s Mother’s Day. Mother, like police, judge and father, is both a noun and a verb. So I feel for mothers, but also, as Mother’s Day looms, for those with fraught experiences of maternity. In recent years, I’ve thought about my mother, gone nine years now, on Mother’s Day, but also about what mothered me beyond her ministrations and limitations.

Source: The Guardian May 09, 2021 10:18 UTC