A book which I am honoured to have contributed a piece of poetic, performative writing to, Everyday World-Making: Toward an Understanding of Affect and Mothering (Edited by Dr. Julia Lane and Eleonora Joensuu), is now out! You can order a copy here.
Here's one of the endorsements the book has received, which I feel sums up beautifully what it achieves:
“This book provides a beautiful, visceral, and expansive conceptualization of mothering, legitimizing the contradictions and messy everydayness that exists alongside the moments of pure wonder and revealing the interconnectedness of it all. The editors bravely expose the intimate realms of affect and mothering, a space that is theoretically far too underexplored. It is an empowering book that makes one feel like anything is possible. A book that actively defies westernized theories of the autonomous self, revealing instead the communal, relational, and always changing aspects of mothering.” —MELINDA VANDENBELD GILES, Professor, Anthropology and English, Lakehead University; editor, Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism