Film
A Disturbing Reckoning With China's One-Child Policy
Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang's new documentary One Child Nation unpacks the history and brutal effects of a policy that dominated a population.
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Books
Dorothea Lasky's Provocative Poems about Motherhood
The poems in Milk combine snarky sense of humor with an edge of semi-bitter self-consciousness.
Art
The Politics of Being a Parent in the Art World
The Let Down Reflex is essential viewing for anyone engaged with issues of caring economies, so-called “women’s work,” or the question of living wages for the art world’s service workers.
Art
An Outsider Art Born of Fantasy
Four years ago, Jamie Diamond was looking for a realistic doll to use in a photographic series and stumbled upon a trove of hyperrealistic dolls known as Reborn babies.
Art
A Tale of Motherhood in Julie Blackmon's Playful Photographs
Fifteen years ago, photographer Julie Blackmon was exploring the basement of her Springfield, Missouri, home when she discovered an old dark room.
Art
Facebook Is for Moms
CHICAGO — There is a set of culturally acceptable ways for mothers to be and behave in the world. Mothers aren't allowed to have their own lives or be sexual; in essence, they're not allowed to be human beings. When an artist who's also a mother crosses these lines, people often react in ways that a
Art
On Being an Artist and a Mother
CHICAGO — What does it mean, bodily, physically, emotionally, mentally, and perhaps spiritually, to be what Simone de Beauvoir deemed "the second sex," to be a woman and, moreover, to be a mother? These are questions that Chelsea Knight explores in her latest video work "The Breath We Took" (2013),