I want to speak to white women directly.

Not to shame you.
But to offer a necessary mirror.

Because what that reflection reveals isn’t just exhaustion. It reveals perspective.

Many of you are only now recognizing what it feels like to mother without tenderness, without safety, without the sense that society is structured to support you. You’re naming how destabilizing it is to raise children in uncertainty. You’re grieving the version of motherhood you thought you’d have.

The mothers of this generation spent the last decade mothering under a Trump-pandemic-Trump sandwich. It fundamentally altered our experience.
We have been robbed of a soft motherhood journey. There is grief in acknowledging the mother we would have been in a safer society. There was no tenderness for us, only relentless triage. And yet... we kept caring for the children with steady stamina and abundant love. It's really impressive.
Be kind to the moms pls. We've been holding it all together.
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