Connect with a current-day immigrant mother (in person, in writing, in reading her story, whatever you can). Show some evidence/documentation of your search. Include: a bit of text, not your own.
-Emma Jaster
#lifeofdoma
Please make a piece that investigates the repetition of doing domestic chores, and how having children has affected your relationship to your "doma" (house/home). How do you cope with the demands of your house? Include: something ascending.
-Stephanie Hayes
#riskyparenting
What risks have you taken in your parenting? Prop: underpants.
-Nikki Weaver
#NightCall
As soon as your kid's door is closed for night sleep, reboot yourself, clean up the mess in your mind, and let the moonshine in. (props : a key)
#MamasMama
A tribute to your own mother.
In honor of Mother's Day, though we recognize this day is celebrated on different dates around the world...
-The Collective
#KidFixations
Engage with / interact with / respond to something your child is or has ever been obsessed with.
#ReclaimTheOxytocin
Share with me a memory or moment you have had when you were on the good drug of motherhood
#MamaIsMagic
Riff on your special talents as a mother. What can you do better as a mom than you could do before? Where are the surprises? What would your grown kid say they were most grateful for about you?
#MamasProwess
Consider your sensual self and its potential relationship to the world. Investigate the navigation of holding sexual desire and motherhood in one and the same body. How can the two be expressed and give room for each other?
#NewMeOldMe
Identify parts of your body that have changed since becoming a mother. Take time to rediscover these parts of you, and have a love affair with one or more of them.
#LoveTheTough
What is the hardest part of motherhood for you personally, thus far? Give it a name or a shape. Then, in your way, give it some love.
#TakeYourselfOut
Imagine your ideal date with yourself. Be specific about the details (setting, dress, drinks, sonic environment) / Create the closest possible approximation of that date within the confines of your life as a caretaker. / Go on this date with yourself for at least five minutes. If your child(ren) join you, let them be strangers; welcome but foreign. / Create a self-portrait of the experience.
-Emma Jaster