The submission portal for the Journal of Mother Studies 2025 is open.
Guidelines are here.
Submit here.
The title of this year’s journal is ‘FUN, SEX & CRYING OUT LOUD’. This broad backdrop offers a platform for submissions on a wide variety of topics.
The Museum of Motherhood is proud to present art, activism and research on the subject of ‘Fun, Sex, & Crying Out Loud’. This year’s theme invites articles and art that support both the interrogation and levity necessary to navigate turbulent times. As well, it supports the subject matter elucidated in the Museum’s 2024-25 new ‘Escape Womb Experience’ and the theme of conception, gestation, and birth. Conference attendees will have the opportunity to experience this one-of-a-kind exhibit.
This international conference invites artists, scholars, poets, sociologists, maternal psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, women’s, sexuality, and gender studies professors, masculinity studies experts, birth-workers, doctors, researchers, students, and lay-people to share their work and tie it to this year’s theme. Works that are inclusive of all identities of birthing folx are encouraged.
We encourage submissions that unpack the sociocultural domain of conception, gestation, birth, childcare, m/otherhood, etc. and the nuanced and real experiences of all aspects of the psychological, personal, professional, and media environment within which these experiences are situated.
The conference will serve as a site of resistance and empowerment as we deconstruct, reframe, and affirm the complex landscape of conception (intended and unintended), gestation (in body and in other’s bodies), and birth within the ongoing labor of diverse family systems everywhere. We recognize the scale, variance, and duration of these passionate personal and institutionalized experiences and hope that this conference will contribute to the body of knowledge on this subject.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Reproductive language, ethics, and care
- Queer love, M/other love
- Normative constructions of gender in m/otherwork, pregnancy, and birthing
- Biomedical and cultural discourses of conception, gestation, and birth
- Marginalized identities, fertility treatment, gender identity, and intersex identities
- Un/wanted pregnancy in the context of pronatalism and policy/criminalization
- Pregnancy and birthing with (dis-)abilities, illness, and children with special needs
- Divorce, breaking up, un-coupling, and families with complex identities and circumstances
- Bucking the trends and breaking new ground
- Art as healing, activism, and expression, and the importance of play
- Embodied resistance to socially constructed conventions about motherwork, pregnancy, and birth, including as they are contextualized within marginalized positions
- Language and identity
- Pain, spiritual awakening, birthing ourselves
If you have questions, please write JourMS@gmail.com or leave a message: 877-711-MOMS (6667). We will return your call.
The MOM Art Annex (FL) is a certified 501c3 designated non profit, connecting Students, Women, Men, M/others and Families through Reproductive Identities, Music, Art, Activism and Education for Cultural, Economic & Social awareness. By creating, producing and presenting visual, literary, educational, academic, performing arts exhibits that celebrate, nurture and support individuals with a special emphasis on identity, experience, and community, MOM acts as a safe space for healing and illumination. We create unique opportunities for people that they might not otherwise have; free of age, race and socio-economic barriers.
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