Unveiling Motherhood: Jennifer Case Challenges the Politics and Nature Behind Our Most Sacred Bond
HMM: Speaking of the timeliness and timelessness, I was just thinking about how you wrote back in 2016, and here we are, nine years later, experiencing a Trump presidency again and experiencing that loss of control again. Do you think that context is part of why the book feels so relevant?
JC: Absolutely. I started sending this manuscript in 2020. It took a couple of years, and there was this moment after Biden was elected, when I thought, “Maybe it doesn’t matter anymore. Maybe they are no longer timely essays.” But, alas, in many ways they reflect our current conversations about motherhood and reproductive justice, just as much as they did in 2016 and 2017 when I wrote them.
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