Oh, this was Mother’s Day! (In some countries, at least.)

No art for this. I never remember when Mother’s Day is, and it’s different in different countries, but apparently it was today in some places. Today I did actually talk to my own real mother, who is alive and mostly well.

I’ve been thinking about motherhood lately, and I have some pretty mixed feelings about this. Not having any actual children of my own, I have lately developed a worrying impulse to pretend that particular younger adults of whom I am fond are my kids. I want to be able to be a mama without putting in the work, apparently.

In one recent case, I was going to make a joke of it, but it turned into a story in my head about if I’d given up a child at twenty, and it got under my skin in a bad way.

Anyway….

Here’s a Twitter thread on othermothers that I enjoyed:
‘Many of you are othermothers.’
The thread talks about its importance in the African diaspora, but I’d say the nature of the ‘othermother’ doesn’t really have a color.

I don’t know what else to add. If you have something interesting to add to this, feel free to tack it on.

Maybe someone will start a Nosy Internet Aunt’s Day & I will finally get some recognition from the internets! But probably neither of those things.