Celebrating the relationship between motherhood and the creative work mothers do
Mother's Project · Growing Up With a Newborn Daisy McGowan lives and works in Colorado as an artist and curator. Being mother to a newborn has spanned over 20 years of her life with her first being born when she was a junior in college. In this episode she describes the way becoming pregnant didn't… Continue reading Growing Up With a Newborn
Mother's Project · The Ugly Placenta Emilia White is an artist and educator who works through performance, video and writing to express her comedic outlook on life. While the work she makes explores taboo and repugnant content, her personal story has introduced more difficult subject matter, and the problem of how to talk about it… Continue reading The Ugly Placenta
Mother's Project · Hope Junky (Photo by: Robert Trachtenberg/NBCUniversal) Jean Villepique is a comedian, actress and writer known for I Love You, Man, IV-Effing, and Key and Peele and plays economics teacher Michelle Jones in AP Bio. In this episode she talks about her long journey trying to become a mother. After several miscarriages, multiple… Continue reading Hope Junky
Mother's Project · Artist - Mother - Retreat Matched Kaylan Buteyn is an artist and mother who has started a movement among other artist mothers. She launched the Artist/Mother Podcast in early 2019 and immediately saw thousands of mothers flocking to the community by listening and posting their work on the podcast's instagram page @artistmotherpodcast.… Continue reading Retreat into Solidarity
Mother's Project · A Second Season of Motherhood After a long year of COVID, pregnancy and new baby, I'm back for season 2! Join me this summer for a new season of mothers finding the impulse to create after going through all the trials and tribulations of motherhood. I'll have five new interviewees on to… Continue reading A Second Season of Motherhood
In this bonus episode I learn from Carly Dothsuk, living in rural Western Kentucky, about what it's like being 8 months pregnant during this COVID-19 pandemic, and how she is preparing for her hospital birth. She speaks candidly about her mental health struggles early in pregnancy and why she is striving not to obsess over… Continue reading Bonus: Birth and Body in a Pandemic
In this bonus episode, we hear from three mothers of newborns on their experiences with breastfeeding. If you're expecting, some things you'll hear them say may surprise you. And if you've gone through this process, you'll likely be nodding your head in agreement. These moms have some really great insight into how to deal with… Continue reading Bonus: Newborns and breastfeeding
Nine mothers from Season 1 This is the closing episode for Season 1 of this project. I have recapped , in an audio essay, some of my own experience with the transformational power of becoming a mother. Nine women have offered their stories of growth and transformation to me this season and I am most… Continue reading Intertwined and Metamorphosed
Author and research psychologist Venessa LoBue In this episode I speak with Associate Professor of Psychology and Child Development Specialist Venessa LoBue and get some of the back story to her book 9 Months In 9 Months Out. She talks about being in a profession where studying other people's kids for her research made her… Continue reading 18 Months of Motherhood, Vanessa LoBue
Jessica standing in front of her triptych at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. In this episode I speak with West Georgia alumna, and mom of three, Jessica Hill about her ongoing struggle with shaping her career while birthing and raising three kids. Jessica's story does not follow the beaten path. In… Continue reading Black Unicorns: Beginning, Jessica Hill
