Explorations and Art by Aster Woods What is Monomaternalism? Monomaternalism, as defined by Shelley Park in her 2013 academic work ”Mothering Queerly, Queering Motherhood: Resisting Monomaternalism in Adoptive, Lesbian, Blended, and Polygamous Families” is essentially the pervasive notion that a person can have only one mother; it also privileges the bio-essentialist belief that only theContinue reading “Let’s Talk About Monomaternalism”
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Mother-Daughter and The Unsaid Things/ FILM
By Emily Zou In my last post on Obachan’s Garden, a Japanese-Canadian documentary, I wrote about how focusing on the stories of mothers and grandmothers is important in disrupting the way that we remember our history and ancestry. For this week’s post, I’d like to write more locally about the wonderful way that a mother-daughterContinue reading “Mother-Daughter and The Unsaid Things/ FILM”
Vegetables by Aster Woods
Art and Words by Aster Woods – Aster is caregiver to her mother 03/08/2020 10.32 AM Clean Bedroom 03/08/2020 10.52 AM Find Last Night’s Dinner 03/08/2020 10.55 AM Have Difficult Conversation about Vegetables I want her to eat vegetables. I want her to eat vegetables so much. I have a Pinterest board full of creativeContinue reading “Vegetables by Aster Woods”
Obachan’s Garden – A Look At Motherhood In Cinema
“We think back through our mothers if we are women”– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. By Emily Zou Obachan’s Garden is a 2001 documentary directed by Linda Ohama, made to honor and remember her grandmother. (Obachan means grandmother in Japanese). Despite this simple conceit, the film takes on a wholly different life asContinue reading “Obachan’s Garden – A Look At Motherhood In Cinema”