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Book: Designing Motherhood (MIT Press, 2021) 🍇🌊🌊🍇 Co-founder: @designingmotherhood
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I love everything about this book. The design. The weight of the paper. The mix of glossy and matte finishes. I picked it up at my local library for the ✨ aesthetic ✨ but the contents are even more magical.

We are 2.5 months out + it's time to start nesting, reading positive child birth stories, and learning about hypnobirthing 😅. Please send this FTM any mindful tips to prep! 🌿 #firsttimemom #mindfulbirth #designingmotherhood

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It’s been a minute since I have posted here (@amberwinick here, 👋 hiii!). Mostly I needed a bit of time away. (Thank you @michellemillarfisher for holding down the fort around here). I interrupt my hiatus today because not one but two DM players have words in @docomomous and their special edition on play.

Don’t miss reading an interview with the great @langealexandra (who wrote the forward to our book) and my own special essay on a place where I played as a child: Naked Lady Park in Miami, Florida. This essay was one I have longed to write for years and I’m so grateful to have had the opportunity to pay homage to a place so dear to me. Plus, who wouldn’t love the chance to advocate for child-friendly cities, celebrating my childhood use of the word “tits”, and naked ladies as playthings? Enjoy.

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Loved this conversation on @theradicaltherapist podcast with the esteemed Chris Hoff, who asked fantastic and provocative questions. We talked about children’s designed environments, trust and time, intergenerational healing and so much more.

This is me in my nerd zone! 🌹😊 Have a listen.

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This book relied upon an incredible community of academics, creatives, mothercentric practitioners and experts all trying to move the matricentric needle. The launch events in Lisbon, London and New York brought so many of us into the same room for the first time. So many trying to support women’s health and well being across all the metrics of our personhood.

Across the writing of this book I interviewed more than 50 incredible voices working to normalise and support maternal sexuality from a diversity of disciplines. So wonderful to see so many of these beautiful humans in person across these events 💓

#modernmotherhood
#matrescence
#supportingmothers
#ittakesavillage

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Reading for a spicy Mother’s Day 🎀🌶️ I am loving the exhibition catalogue for Designing Motherhood from curators @michellemillarfisher & @amberwinick @designingmotherhood

FANTASTIC, complex histories told with empathy, curiosity, and creative approaches to the radicality of bodily autonomy & birth. My new obsession is the 1970s history of the home pregnancy test - of course a woman invented it, designed it, and fought the FDA for approval as the patriarchy ✨ lost their minds ✨ that people might have more control over their own bodies if armed with the knowledge to make informed choices. Three cheers for Meg Crane.

Anyway, go get yourself a copy of this gorgeous book.
Reads well alongside @errantjournal @parisreview & @londonreviewofbooks for some spring thoughts.

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Designing Motherhood by @michellemillarfisher and @amberwinick is an incredible, and important book, that explores an extensive range of topics, including the many objects surrounding childbirth, motherhood, and the woman’s body during these stages.

Also includes, a feature on the sari, as a maternity garment by Malika Verma @borderandfall

I’m going to be reading through this book for a long time!

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We went to blighty and saw a lot of frenz, did a lot of art and it was the best 😍

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The Book of the Month is Designing Motherhood written by @michellemillarfisher and @amberwinick , a smart, design-driven exploration of over 80 objects that have shaped the way we experience reproduction, from pregnancy tests to baby carriers.

The project started as an Instagram account, and is now a book and exhibition @madmuseum . We encourage you to discover how design, culture, and care intersect in the journey of motherhood.

Available at The Store at MAD online and in store.
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#designingmotherhood #motherhood #bookrecs #bookreviews #bookofthemonth #motherhoodbooks #booktok #museumstore #museumofartsanddesign #nycmuseums

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Babies in the museum! This photo is so special to me because it’s an image that would have probably scared the crap out of me in my 20s and even early 30s. Babies + Art = ???

To be able to pursue art, the calling of my life and raise a family at the same time is something I wasn’t sure was possible. Enter Designing Motherhood- I discovered this project sometime around the time I had my first baby.

Prior to my giving birth, I was making art and doing a lot of research around neuroscience and AI (topics that I have slowly since resumed contemplating in new light). But at the time of my pregnancy, I became secretly subsumed with learning about the things that were happening to my body— pregnancy, birth, lactation, caring for a tiny creature that conjured an ocean of hormones through my veins.

I say secretly because I was embarrassed by it all— I think I had internalized some sexist belief that “legitimate” research was separate from the intimate experiences of being a mother. Designing Motherhood saved me in this way— the intense care and brilliance through which they have researched the material and social conditions through which we experience the arc of reproduction has been for me, a lifeboat in a sea of self doubt.

The DM team has done so much beyond this — but for me, I just want to personally thank them for the ways they have championed artist parents; giving us incredible venues to voice our experiences and give forum to discuss these matters in both intellectual and heartfelt ways.

It is especially meaningful for this exhibit to have landed in New York, in the Museum of Arts and Design, a place that I came to frequently as a design student and aspiring artist. What a dream to show here, in my home town and to be able to share it with my little family.

Thank you to the curatorial team @designingmotherhood @michellemillarfisher @amberwinick @julianabarton @zoee_greggs @sweetwatertaffy @efkoehn @alixschwartz and all the incredible artists and designers in all the shows that I am lucky to call my community <3<3<3

Onwards!

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I do believe my prom date (Amber) wore it better

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Such a treat to be taken through the DESIGNING MOTHERHOOD exhibition by co-curator Elisabet Norin. Thank you also to Carl-Oskar Linne and everyone else who helped make the show so fabulous. It’s an honor to have my work included, alongside the wonderful @jesstdugan, among others.

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👼🏼 𝓓𝓮𝓼𝓲𝓰𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓜𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓭 𝓑𝓪𝓫(𝓲)𝓮𝓼 👼🏼

valentines at @crafthouston = noontime convening on infrastructures of care feat. Alicia Eggert @aplaceintheuniverse , Martha Poggioli @marthapoggioli, attornies Regá + Gordon Waggett, Taeshaun Walters of @birthmarkdoulas and Fran Wang of @yona.care. meet us at the museum or tune in on facebook live at 12 pm CST 🫶

please enjoy this montage of exhibition caregiving, baby wearing, ArtSit™️ing, multigenerational comment booking, and student art making. endless thanks to @jayclarkfilms for beautifully capturing the show.

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