Tag Archives: Motherhood
“Let’s show our girls the REAL women they can be.”
Tweet When photographer Jamie Moore was thinking about marking her daughter Emma’s fifth birthday with a photo shoot, she wanted to get more creative than a set of princess photos. She explains: It started me thinking about all the REAL women for my daughter to know about and look up too, REAL women who without [...]
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For the mamas who don’t get love on Mother’s Day
TweetEd. note: This is a guest post by Rebecca Trotzky-Sirr. It is part of the Strong Families Mama’s Day Our Way celebration. You can read more posts in the series on the Strong Families blog. Strong Families is a national initiative led by Forward Together. Our goal is to change the way people think, act and talk about families. Rebecca’s bio is after [...]
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Quick Hit: Stacia L. Brown’s advocacy for the voices of single mothers
TweetWriter Stacia L. Brown is changing the conversation around single motherhood within communities of color and beyond. Brown rightly highlights the glaring omission in recent trend pieces reporting exploring the rise of single parenting in America. “The latest numbers on unmarried parenting are out. The National Marriage Project reports that 58 percent of first births in [...]
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New Favorite Tumblr: “Meet My Immigrant Mom”
Tweet Launched by the Domestic Workers Alliance, this really sweet Tumblr is filled with photos of immigrant mothers with notes of appreciation written by their children. Meet the mom pictured above: My mother immigrated from Burma as a seamstress and spent her life sewing and making things from curtains to sofas. She worked 3 jobs all her [...]
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Quick Hit: On raising feminist sons