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Shop online with B&N to benefit M.O.M. using this special code [CLICK]

During the week of May 6-15 purchase books using this CODE: 11455805  to make your purchases online and a portion of your purchase will go to benefit M.O.M.

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Please shop online and a percentage of your purchase will count toward a FUNDRAISER for M.O.M. Instructions:

May 6-15, 2015. Go to (www.bn.com/bookfairs) for ANY book purchase. Click the button “Start Shopping.” To benefit the Museum of Motherhood collect your purchases in the check-out process and in the Payment section, scroll down to the bottom where it saysCheck this Box if this is a Bookfair Order. When you check the box, type book fair ID#11455805 in the provided box. Questions about an order:800-962-6177 Thank You!

Here’s how it works:

  • Be sure to use the web address above (bn.com/bookfairs) to do your online shopping. Click on the button “Start Shopping Now.”
  • When you’ve finished selecting your purchases, click on your cart and begin the check-out process. In the Payment section, scroll down to the bottom where it says Check this Box if this is a Bookfair Order. When you check the box, type bookfair ID#11455805 in the provided box.
  • If you already have a BN.com account with a default payment method selected, you will only see a Checkout Summary screen.  To add the Bookfair ID to the payment page, you will need to click on the Change button on the right-hand side of the Payment Section. This will take you back to the payment page, where you will scroll down to the bottom of the page until you see “Check this Box if this is a Bookfair Order.” Check the box and enter our bookfair I.D. number, above.
  • After placing your order, you can log back into your Order Summary Confirmation to check to see if the Bookfair ID number is listed on your order. If it is, everything was done correctly.
  • If you do not see a Bookfair ID number, or if you realize that you placed your order without using our Bookfair ID number, please call Customer Service at 800-962-6177 as soon as possible. Provide your order number and our Bookfair ID number, and the representative will manually add your order to our Bookfair sales total.
  • Please note that some items, such as gift cards, ebooks, textbooks, magazines and Barnes & Noble Memberships are not included in bookfair sales totals. However, NOOKs are included! We earn 5% back on any NOOKs you purchase, so why wait to get those great NOOK HD and HD+ devices!

Thanks again for supporting our Bookfair!

– LIST of Reader’s Choice M.O.M. Essential Books 2015 w/Links [CLICK] – 

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Motherhood Hall of Fame Event – 5/7

Motherhood Hall of Fame 2015; Amber Kinser, Ann Fessler
Motherhood Hall of Fame 2015; Amber Kinser, Ann Fessler

First and foremost, thank you to everyone who came out to our 2015 “New Maternalisms” conference held over the weekend at the CUNY Graduate Center and Manhattan College, and to all our empowering and uplifting speakers! We will continue to grapple with the issues and material raised over the course of the three-day series throughout the upcoming year. It’s a good feeling to be so knowledge-heavy! Following this insightful, invigorating, and thought-provoking journey, we’re moving full-speed ahead into the week of Mother’s Day and all the associated activities we have planned. We will continue to champion motherwork through a week-long book fair sponsored by Barnes and Noble to benefit the museum, a speaker/reading series to be held at the Upper West Side Barnes and Noble each day between May 6-May 10, and our annual Motherhood Hall of Fame event on Thursday, May 7 at the Upper West Side Barnes and Noble.

The Motherhood Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be hosted by the Museum of Motherhood’s Joy Rose and Manhattan College Professor of Sociology Roksana Badruddoja. The event will take place from 7-9PM on Thursday, May 7 at the Upper West Side Barnes and Noble (on the corner of 82nd and Broadway*). The evening will honor Ann Fessler and Amber Kinser through remarks, performances, a question/answer session, and readings/talks from the two awardees. The Museum of Motherhood is celebrating these motherhood warriors for their “Practical and Political Inspiration.”

For more on Ann Fessler and Amber Kinser’s contribution to our field, check out their bios below:

Ann Fessler is a photographer, filmmaker, and author. She a professor in the Photography department at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her films, photographs, artists’ books, and audio and video installations have been shown in galleries, museums, and film festivals around the world. Her own experience with adoption has inspired her to explore this topic artistically and has been the theme of her work for the last 25 years. In 2003, Ann was awarded a Radcliffe Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University to compile research and conduct interviews with women who lost children to adoption in the 1950s and 1960s. This research culminated in the publication of The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade (Penguin Press), which was chosen as one of the top 5 non-fiction books of 2006 by the National Book Critics Circle and received the Ballard Book Prize. The Times called it a “remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” Her recent film, A Girl Like Her (Women Make Movies), has been screened internationally at festivals, colleges, and conferences, and has been subtitled in 5 languages.

Amber Kinser is a writer, speaker, mother, and professor. She is a professor of Communication and Performance at East Tennessee State University, where her scholarship covers family, food, gender, and communication. She was instrumental in forging the Women’s Studies undergraduate major at the university. Dr. Kinser is the author of Performing Motherhood: Artistic, Activist, and Everyday Enactments and Motherhood and Feminism. She is currently underway in a university-sponsored research project, for which she received a $10,000 grant, to study motherhood and the family meal.

*Please note, a previous post had erroneously listed this address as being at 86th and Broadway. The Upper West Side Barnes and Noble location is at 2289 Broadway, the corner of 82nd and Broadway.

Written by: Jenny Nigro, MoM Online Intern

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“Listen to Your Mother” Event 5/8

Listen to Your MotherIn preparation for our Mother’s Day week of events, we have been announcing the lineup of special guests and speakers that are participating in our Barnes and Noble fundraiser. We are excited to announce the content of our May 8 reading to be held at the Upper West Side Barnes and Noble location (at 82nd and Broadway). On Friday, May 8 we will welcome select authors from Listen to Your Mother, a compilation of essays from authors of different genders, ages, and races that give voice to the kaleidoscopic nature of motherhood. This event is in time with our book fair. Anyone who purchases books from May 6-15 through barnesandnoble.com and uses the code 11455805 will see a portion of their sale go to the Museum of Motherhood.

For more information about Listen to Your Mother, please check out this press release submitted by Amy Wilson:

PRESS RELEASE FOR MUSEUM OF MOTHERHOOD 5/8 “LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER” EVENT

  • “In 2010, Ann Imig organized a live-staged reading event in Madison, WI, to bring together her community—mothers and non-mothers alike—and provide a forum for a diversity of voices to share their personal stories. These readers spoke honestly and openly about motherhood, family, childhood, and parenting. And so, the Listen to Your Mother movement was born. This one event quickly grew into an annual national performance sensation, with nearly 40 nationwide events scheduled for May 2015. Now, in LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now (G.P. Putnam’s Sons; April 7, 2015; $25.95), Imig brings to the page what she helped bring to the stage five years ago with this collection of 56 candid, funny, poignant, unexpected, and soul-bearing essays. The contributors to this powerful anthology bravely share their stories, ranging from hilarious to heartbreaking, showcasing the experiences of ordinary people from a broad spectrum of racial, gender, and age backgrounds. With a roster of writers that includes first time essayists and New York Times-bestselling authors Jennifer Weiner, Jenny Lawson and others, LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER reflects our diverse contemporary lifestyles and rapidly changing definitions of motherhood.”
  • AUTHORS PRESENT THAT NIGHT WITH ESSAYS IN THE BOOK INCLUDE
    • PATTY CHANG ANKER is the author of SOME NERVE: Lessons Learned While Becoming Brave which Oprah.com calls “Downright inspiring,” is a Parents Magazine “Mom Must Read” and a Books for a Better Life Award Finalist. Her writing has appeared in O Magazine, Dr Oz The Good LIfe, WallStreetJournal.com and NPR,org. She blogs regularly for PsychologyToday.com‘s anxiety section and was named a Good Housekeeping “Blogger We Love” and a Circle of Moms Top 25 Funny Mom for her own blog, Facing Forty Upside Down. When she’s not speaking or leading workshops on facing fears she can be found chasing her two daughters across Westchester County. @PattyChangAnker www.pattychanganker.com
    • KATHY CURTO teaches Writing at Montclair State University and The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College.  Her work has been published in Talking Writing, Junk, The Inquisitive Eater, The Asbury Park Press, Italian Americana, VIA-Voices in Italian Americana, Lumina, The Mom Egg and Splash of Red.  Kathy has shared her stories with audiences across the metropolitan area, in Washington DC and in the beautiful town of Erice on the island of Sicily and has also been a featured guest essayist on NPR.   In 2012 she was selected as one of the cast members of the first NYC Listen to Your Mother show.  Kathy lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband and their four children.  Please visit her website: kathycurto.com.
    • EDWARD MCCANN Is a writer whose features and essays have been published in national magazines and literary journals.  A contributing editor for Country Living magazine, Ed has also written the text for several published books. He worked nearly a decade as an award-winning television writer and producer, originating a weekly broadcast magazine show and collaborating on a series of documentaries and special news reports.  At The Culinary Institute of America, Ed spent a year creating instructional videos for students and for the hospitality industry, then partnered with designer Richard Kollath to collaborate on publishing projects and form their new design company, Kollath McCann Creative Services.
    • BARBARA PATRICK passionate owner of Bitty Birdie Design, is a quilter and fabric artist who lovingly turns vibrant fabrics into keepsakes of many types.  She is also a wife and mother to three children in three different schools in Newtown, CT.  Barb functions at two speeds — efficiently OCD or asleep.  This is Barb’s debut into weaving words together for all the world to see.  Connect with Barb at BittyBirdie.com.
    • AMY WILSON is the author of When Did I Get Like This? (HarperCollins, Target “Emerging Author” selection) and Mother Load, a one-woman show which toured to 16 cities nationwide after its hit run off-Broadway.  As an actor, Amy also co-starred in The Last Night of Ballyhoo on Broadway, appeared as a series regular on two sitcoms (NBC’s Daddio and ABC’s Norm), and has guest starred in many other TV shows and films. She has written for magazines like Redbook and Parenting, and websites like CNN, NPR, and The New York Times. Blog: whendidigetlikethis.com.

Arranged by: Jenny Nigro, MoM Online Intern

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Meet Laura Fuentes on May 9 at the Upper West Side Barnes and Noble!

laura fuentes imageContinuing from our post last week about the programming that we have going on during the week leading up to Mother’s Day, we’re pleased to showcase the event that will be held on Saturday, May 9. As with the Mother Egg Review event we mentioned in our last post, the Museum of Motherhood will emcee a series of mother-centric appearances and readings at the Upper West Side Barnes and Noble (at 82nd and Broadway) from May 6-10. These events coincide with a fundraiser to benefit the museum, hosted by B & N. You may have seen this posted on other parts of our site, but just in case you missed it, here’s the skinny on the fundraiser: for the week of May 6-15, anyone who purchases books through barnesandnoble.com and uses the code 11455805 will see a portion of their sale go to the Museum of Motherhood. On Saturday, May 9, we will welcome Laura Fuentes, renown children’s wellness expert, to the Upper West Side Barnes and Noble from 1-3PM.

Laura is an author, speaker, recipe developer, entrepreneur, and expert in the field of family nutrition. She is the creator and founder of MOMables, an online resource that offers fun and creative ideas for planning kids’ school lunches. She is the host of MOMables Radio, a podcast available on iTunes, a columnist for the Huffington Post, a purveyor of useful how-tos on her YouTube channel, and the author of two must-have recipe books for parents everywhere: The Best Homemade Kids’ Lunches on the Planet and The Best Homemade Snacks on the Planet. Additionally, Laura speaks nationally on a wide range of topics, including family food, children’s health, school lunch policy, and business. She holds a degree in Global Economics and a Master’s of Business Administration. A common thread among these ventures, Laura is “committed to helping parents make real food happen in their households by sharing easy recipes and quick tips.” Laura is a native of Spain and the mother of three.

Contributed by: Jenny Nigro, MoM Online Intern

 

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The Mom Egg Review and Marjorie Tesser

Marjorie Tesser photoThere is a lot in store for the Museum of Motherhood over the next couple of months! We’re excited to share the events and projects we have planned leading up to Mother’s Day with you in our upcoming blog entries (including last week’s post about the 2015 conference titled “New Maternalisms” to be held on May 2). We hope that you will share these happenings with your communities and join us for these mother-centric plans.

This week, we’re profiling the Mom Egg Review, which will be celebrated at the Upper West Side Barnes and Noble location at Broadway and W 82nd St on Wednesday, May 7 from 7-9PM. The night will feature readings from select contributors to the collection. And who better to explain the purpose and vision of the Mom Egg Review than its editor, Marjorie Tesser?

For those of you who don’t know her, Marjorie Tesser is a poet and editor of the Mom Egg Review, an independent annual print collection of stories (both fiction and non-), poetry, and art that embraces motherwork. An attorney by training, she can also count editor and entrepreneur as her callings. In addition to editing the Mom Egg Review, Marjorie was also the editor of a compilation of poems called Bowery Women and co-editor of Estamos Aqui: Poems by Migrant Farmworkers. She is the author of two books of poems, The Important Thing Is and The Magic Feather.

Of the Mom Egg Review, Marjorie writes:

Mom Egg Review publishes poetry, fiction, and non-fiction by writers who are mothers or who write about motherhood.

There’s a school of thought in modern literature that the personal narrative is dead, that its narrow point of view speaks little to the complexities of today’s world; that those stories all have been told. But not these stories, of women’s lives—of family and motherhood, of culture, work, love, politics, from diverse women’s viewpoints and experience. For thousands of years, the focus of history and art has come from the perspective of males. But women’s stories and insights are important, vital, for our world.

The Museum of Motherhood (along with its non-profit Motherhood Foundation) believes in the importance of these stories, and supports, promotes, nurtures, and celebrates women and their work in an amazing variety of ways—creative, academic, maternal, and entrepreneurial are just some examples, and consistently fosters connections and collaboration.

Our current issue of Mom Egg Review contains a special poetry folio themed “Compassionate Action”. The poems address urgent circumstances, and explore options for overcoming stasis and aligning hands and feet with minds and hearts.

The Museum of Motherhood is the epitome of such action, telling and showing the truths about mothers’ roles and work and value. The media and the established powers, with their tendency to exalt or disparage motherhood, are not exposing these truths. It’s up to us to insure that our stories get told, and heard. We need to support the institutions that that work to ensure that our voices, our experience, views, needs, and realities, are acknowledged.

Contributed by: Jenny Nigro, MoM Online Intern

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Save the Date – Motherhood Hall of Fame 2015 is May 7th, NYC [CLICK]

SAVE THE DATE: Thursday, May 7th 7-9pm, 2015 for select readings in NYC and the induction ceremony with special guests.

This year we celebrate Amber Kinser and Ann Fessler as women of “Practical and Political Inspiration” for induction to the Motherhood Hall of Fame. These individuals are women of excellence in the area of maternal wellbeing in politics or practical application.

In addition to this special night, we will be hosting a series of evenings at Barnes and Noble throughout the week of May 6, 7, 8, 9, 10th. A fundraising bookfair for M.O.M. runs in partnership with Barnes & Noble from May 6-15th. Proceeds go to benefit the Museum. Please SUPPORT US. See details here [CLICK]. (Please borrow our badge for the MHOF and share on your website with links as well). Thank You!

Motherhood Hall of Fame 2015; Amber Kinser, Ann Fessler
Motherhood Hall of Fame 2015; Amber Kinser, Ann Fessler
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Help Us Find Our Next Stage Location

Dear MOM Friends –

I hope this note finds you all well.

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Joy Rose

As you know– The Museum of Motherhood has occupied a great deal of my time and attention for the last 10 years; first as an idea, then in founding the non-profit Motherhood Foundation Inc., and finally in practice, through traveling exhibits and our location in NYC 2011-2014.

In 2011, Working Mother Magazine published an interview in which I stated, “there are marble museums, mustard museums, and car museums, why isn’t there a Museum of Motherhood?” Last summer my family and I actually stumbled upon the Mustard Museum near Lubec, Maine! Recently Galit sent a link to a new Hip Hop Museum opening in Harlem which is exciting, but unfortunately isn’t our Museum of Motherhood. Finally, my kids continue to enjoy spending vacation time in St. Petersburg, Fla. (which has no less than 5 major museums).

During the spring and summer of 2015 I will be expanding the search for a next-level space both North and South. I will specifically be looking for affiliations with universities. I have found examples of privately owned spaces gaining recognition from the colleges they work with, and eventually being legitimized through that relationship. I will also be asking God for guidance.

I am specifically interested in St. Petersburg/Tampa, Florida, and Brunswick/Orono, Maine, because of the personal relationships I have there. I would also consider the Bronx/Manhattan, although barring a miracle it would be difficult for me to personally sustain something in the NY Metro area. If I consider a move, it may be possible for me to continue to push the project with my personal assets and resources.

Please send thoughts and inspiration. It will be a busy spring with the Barnes and Noble book fair/fundraiser, and the annual academic MOM Conference. If anyone would like to help organize the book fair, please do let me know. We have a full five days to host readings, encourage people around the country to use our special code to make Mother’s Day book purchases (of which we’ll receive a portion of the sales), and raise awareness of M.O.M.

I am aiming to complete my thesis this spring. If you’re interested in seeing what I’m working on, it’s posted here. I will continue to prayerfully embrace the next phase of this journey, and in the meantime, on behalf of the museum, I send light, love, and peace to each of you beautiful and generous people this holiday season.

With Great Affection and Warmest Wishes for a Healthy, Happy, and Wealthy New Year,

M. Joy Rose

Write me directly at: MOMmuseum.@gmail.com