The Porous Boundaries of Mothers

On temporal boundaries as an act of resistance

Last week, my midwife texted me Amanda Montei’s Op-ed Mothers Just Want to be Left Alone, which speaks to the dissolving bodily autonomy that comes with mothering in our society. In it, Montei says:

Today, when women speak of feeling touched out in motherhood, they cite this phenomenon— a sense that their body no longer belongs to them. Mothers belong to…