In an age of increasing environmental challenges and social unrest, the need for conversation arises: How do we parent our children in a world of change and disruption? Authors
Jennifer Case,
Martha Park,
Christina Rivera,
Chelsea Steinauer, and
Jessica E. Johnson invite you to their panel, Mothering the Future: New Nonfiction on Parenting and Environmental Change, where they will read their work and discuss the intersection between environmental writing and motherhood. Jennifer writes about bodily autonomy, identity, mental health, and other realities that give historical and cultural context to the experience of motherhood in her book,
We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood. Martha’s forthcoming illustrated book,
World Without End: Essays on Apocalypse and After, explores the intersections of faith, motherhood, and the climate crisis across the South. Christina is a Pushcart Prize-winning author whose forthcoming book,
My Oceans: Essays of Water, Whales, and Women, is a collection of ecofeminist reflections from the confluence of motherhood and marine life. Chelsea’s book,
Mother, Creature, Kin, examines, among other things, what it means to be a mother in an era of climate catastrophe in prose that teems with longing, lyricism, and knowledge of ecology. Jessica is the author of
Mettlework, a memoir of her upbringing amid the remains of an extractive industry interwoven with her story of motherhood in the modern world. Although each writer approaches these topics from different angles and cultural contexts, they all openly question, interrogate, and meditate on what it means to be a mother in an era of environmental change.
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