Unveiling Motherhood: Jennifer Case Challenges the Politics and Nature Behind Our Most Sacred Bond
HMM: I really appreciated how you wrote towards the end of the book, “I realized that as much as I loved being there, participating in what I believed was my evolutionary, animal self, I also wanted to be somewhere else—and I didn’t know what to do with that tension.” Aside from writing these essays, how have you grappled with that tension differently over time as a writer?
JC: Since writing these essays I’ve come to understand how seasonal creativity and creative practice can be, and I’ve accepted that more than when I was an early mother and younger. There are moments in life when we have a lot of time when we can devote large chunks of time to creative practice, and there’s also time when we’re germinating ideas. So we might not be writing as much, but we’re still thinking, or, in my case, during the pandemic, when I had kids home with me all day, I did not do any writing. I cooked creative meals and I gardened, and those were my creative practices for a season of life. So I’ve come to be more flexible, understanding of those seasons and patterns.
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