Unveiling Motherhood: Jennifer Case Challenges the Politics and Nature Behind Our Most Sacred Bond

Unveiling Motherhood: Jennifer Case Challenges the Politics and Nature Behind Our Most Sacred Bond

cover of We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood by jennifer case; illustration woman on floor sewing a stuffed fox

HMM: This is sort of a tangential question to the book, but are you writing about how motherhood looks different now, now that you have more time to breathe and think?

JC: I haven’t but that’s interesting. That would be an interesting thing to explore.

HMM: It would give other writers some hope. Things will eventually get better.

JC: They will, they will.

HMM: I really appreciated that throughout the book you address those hopeless moments, especially in the first weeks, when you’re like, when was the last time that I slept longer than two hours in a row? For so long, talking about the difficult parts of being a mother, and being a woman, have been considered taboo. Why do you think that is?

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