Muthahood

My friend Em has recently started the brilliant GET REAL blog - exploring real experiences of tackling the difficulties of mental health in a positive way and they are currently looking for submissions. They also have a facebook page here. Em told me about Michelle Tea's online MUTHA Magazine which I've just started exploring and it's an amazing resource for feminists punks queeros and weirdos in their words 'exploring real-life motherhood, from every angle, at every stage'. I was lucky enough to have the Sister Spit's stay at my house once years ago during the UK tour that my friend Em was also part of and it was such a positive and exciting experience. Sister Spit is a feminist spoken-word and performance art collective based in San Francisco founded by Michelle - you can find out more about them here.
Michelle Tea also writes this brilliant column 'Getting Pregnant with Michelle Tea' at xojane.com and wrote this amazing intro to the Mutha website that I wanted to share on here; "i’ve been trying to get pregs for about two years now, and along the way I’ve become increasingly obsessed with all things Mom. In pop culture and science. In art and literature and film and television. The ways Moms looked in the 50s and 60s and 70s; the way Moms look now. I’m interested in baby names and maternity clothes and feminist child-rearing and mothering traditions. Punk moms and hippie moms and hip hop moms. Normal moms and weirdo moms, queer moms and straight moms, tiger moms and slacker moms. IVF and IUI and heterosexual fornication and adoption. Ovaries and uteruses and surrogates. Home births and scheduled c-sections. Bad moms, mommy wars, mommy everything. How people stay creative and vital while raising kids. I want a place online to hang out with all of it, without having pink flowers or digital sprinkles of fairy-baby dust assault my aesthetics."