21st Anniversary MoM Conference 2026
ANNOUNCING: The Museum of Motherhood’s Academic and Arts Conference | Reproductive Identities and Resistance: Mothers and Others in Culture, Community and Collaboration.
March 27, 28 (in-person) & 29 (online) 2026
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This year’s conference theme is grounded in Aurélie M. Athan’s concept of reproductive identity as a lifelong meaning-making process regarding how individuals orient themselves to reproduction, parenting, and caregiving, and the “if/when/how/who” associated with reproductive decision-making.
As a concept, reproductive identity is fluid and resists pronatalist and patriarchal mandates that dictate narrow expectations about reproductive outcomes and parenting. It centers an individual’s lived experiences and associated meanings about all aspects of reproduction, including being childfree, pregnancy, infertility, abortion, pregnancy loss and grief, adoption, and extended family systems of caregiving. The various and ever-changing meanings associated with reproduction (or reproductive potential) across the lifespan is paramount to understanding reproductive identity as a concept with emotional, spiritual, financial, familial, cultural, and political influences and implications. As a conference theme, we welcome work that shares interdisciplinary, feminist, holistic, developmental, and narrative inquiry with reproductive identity as a concept.
We invite critical reflection and collective inquiry into how maternal, reproductive, and care-centered identities are formed, challenged, and transformed across contexts, relationships, and life stages. We seek work that explores these identities not only as individual journeys, but as deeply social, political, and communal acts.
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For the past 20 years, since 2005, the Museum of Motherhood (MoM) has been bringing together scholars, mother-artists, change makers, and community members for the Annual Academic & Arts MoM Conference.
We have welcomed participants from around the world to join us in person and on Zoom as they share research, expertise, creative projects, and a passion for the issues, obstacles and health-related topics affecting women, m/others and families. This year is no different!
For more information, visit: JourMS.org. Organized through: http://www.mommuseum.org
Questions? Contact: Brittany DeNucci, conference planning committee chair The Museum of Motherhood @ membership@mommuseum.org. Or call 877-711-MOMS (6667) and leave a message.
Annual Academic Conference Organizing Committee:
Meet the 2026 conference planning committee members!
Committee Chair: Brittany “Britt” DeNucci, MA (She/Her/Hers)
Committee Member: Jourms, Meagan Welch, MEd, PhD (ABD) (She/Her/Hers). Editor ; Journal of Mother Studies (JourMS), 2025
Committee Member: Courtney Kessler, MFA, PhD Candidate (She/Her/Hers)
Committee Member: Shamella “Mel” Joy (She/Her/Hers)
Committee Member: Elizabeth Charles, MFA (She/Her/Hers)
Committee Member: Jill M. Wood, PhD (She/Her/Hers)
Committee Member: Regan Moss, Doctoral Student at Tulane University University & Fellow with the Newcomb Institute & Predoctoral Fellow with the Khora Lab (She/Her/Hers)
Advisory – Michelle Hughes Miller – Associate Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, US
Advisory – Joy Rose – Founding Director, Museum of Motherhood, New York, NY, US [MOMmuseum@gmail.com]
In addition to submissions for the annual conference, we welcome a wide range of research, articles, art, and books for review at the Journal of Mother Studies (JourMS). Please consider sharing your work for publication at JourMS online. For your submission, we will ask you some questions:
Your Name
Abstract
When you have these materials ready, send to JourMS@gmail.com Thanks
ZOOM ETIQUETTE AND HOW TO : ATTACHMENT LINK HERE
Past Conferences [CLICK]:
Thank You to the founder’s MOM [Florence Joy Rose) RIP
SEWSA Conference 2020 (COVID canceled)
I <3 MOM Conference 2018 Program
I <3 MOM Conference 2017 Program
I <3 MOM Conference 2016 Schedule
NYC – MOM Conference 2015 Program
NYC – MOM Conference Program 2014
NYC – MOM Conference Program 2013
NYC – MOM Conference Press Release 2012
NYC – MOM Conference 2010
ARM Conference 2008 – Filmed The Motherhood Movement: You Say You Want A Revolution
MOM Conferences since 2005 – Women’s Media Center
Past Academic Committee Members [CLICK]
THANKS TO ALL OUR PAST ACADEMIC COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Laura Tropp – Faculty, University Administration, Cultural Historian, University of Connecticut, Stamford.
Roksana Badruddoja – Associate Professor, Sociology and Women and Gender Studies, Manhattan College, Bronx, NY, US.
Gina Wong – Registered Psychologist, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Disciplines at Athabasca University, CA [ginaw@athabascau.ca]
Lynda Ross – Associate Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, Chair, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, Athabasca University, CA [lyndar@athabascau.ca}
Joy Baum – Adjunct Faculty; Arts In Education Teacher Training at Queens College, CUNY, NY [nahvah@gmail.com]
Lynn Kuechle – Coordinator, Taylor Nursing Institute for Family and Society, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota, US [momscholar@gmail.com]
Amber Blair – Part-time Faculty, Sociology & Anthropology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, US [ablair@georgiasouthern.edu]
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