REPRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPES- Undoing m/otherhood; who has the right to talk about motherhood, who claims that status, and how do we create words, art, and scholarship moving forward?
St. Petersburg, Florida & Online / March 24-26, 2023 / Museum of Motherhood
FRIDAY | MOM ART ANNEX | Zoom & Onsite |
9 | Martha Joy Rose | ZOOM: Intro |
9:30 | Batya Weinbaum | ZOOM: Contextualizing Motherhood: Notes on the Power We Might Not Want to Give Away, Drawn from the Second Wave |
10 | Justyna Wierzchowska | ZOOM: A Mother-Artist’s Work: Reclaiming Black Motherhood in Renée Cox’s Yo Mama and American Family Photographic Series |
10:30 | Emily Smith | ZOOM: Sanctifying Pregnancy: Catholics and Natural Childbirth in the 1950s |
11 | Danielle Bell Procope | ZOOM: The Collapsing Spheres of Black Working Motherhood at the turn of Twentieth Century |
11:30 | Emma Oslé | ZOOM: Madres, Madonnas, and Orishas: Maternal Imagery in the Latin American Diaspora |
12 | Natalia Laverde Osuna | ZOOM: Who is allowed to be a mother in today’s western society? |
12:30 Break | ||
1:30 | Rachel VanEvery presenting for Amy Wright | ZOOM: The Indigenous Mother’s Healthcare Narrative: Her Story, Her Art, Her Way |
2 | Liz Kukura | ZOOM: Embracing Maternal Ambivalence |
2:30 | Katherine Nolan | ZOOM: Performing Miscarriage: Material Experiences of the Loss of Motherhood |
3 | Angela Beallor & Elizabeth Press (EP) | ZOOM: Reproducing Queers: Queer Knowledge (Re)Productions and Learning with Our Gender Creative Child |
3:30 | Mary Nickel | ZOOM: Who is She? Inclusivity, Language, and Pregnancy |
4:00 | Kate Golding | ZOOM: Monumental care: Lockdowns, caregiving and collaborative creative practice |
4:30 | Bailey Higgins | ZOOM: Without A Village: Motherhood, Child Care, and COVID-19 |
5-6 PM | Open Discussion | ZOOM: Discussion on the topics presented |
SATURDAY | CREATIVE GRAPE | DINNER AFTER |
9 | Tiffany Valencia, Christina Enodien Supervisor Michael Kramp | ZOOM: The Mothers of Sierra Leone documentary film |
9:30 | Aliesha Clark | ZOOM: A Megaphone for Black Mothers |
10:00 | Lyani Powers | IN PERSON: Traditional / Indigenous practices and ritual as postpartum care as an act of Remembering and Revolution |
10:30 | Jill M. Wood | IN PERSON: Birth Justice: Pregnancy Self-Help Literature as Disembodiment |
11 | Amanda Apgar | IN PERSON: The new Mother Blame |
11:30 | Laci Mattison & Jordan Von Cannon | IN PERSON: Everybody’s Mother: Post-Pandemic Parenting and the Second Shift in Academia |
12 BREAK | ||
1 | Sally Butcher | IN PERSON: (In) Fertile Embodiment: Revealing the Invisibility of Infertility between the Medical and the Maternal through a Feminist Art Practice |
1:30 | Rachael Grad | ZOOM: Motherhood Moments: creating new aesthetic space |
2 | Valerie Smith | IN PERSON: “We Were Never Meant to Survive”: An Autoethnography of Resilience and Black Motherhood |
2:30 | Rebecca Marcelina Gimeno | IN PERSON: Mothering a Ghost: Bone Baby |
3 | JWells | IN PERSON: “I don’t want someone dirty holding my baby”: Analyzing Misogynoir in Babies Behind Bars. |
3:30 | Michelle Hughes Miller | IN PERSON: Woman, mother, Person- Dobbs and the Justices’ Understandings of Pregnant People |
4 | Brittany DeNucci | Emotional Support and Mindfulness in Motherhood |
4:30 – 6 | Discussion & Dinner | Creative Grape |
SUNDAY | MOM Art Annex | Zoom and Onsite |
10 | Jennifer Maher | ZOOM: Rescuing Maternity: Masculinity, The Child, and Queer Futurity in 9-1-1 |
11 | Estelle Philips | ZOOM: Motherhoodlum |
11:30 | Laura Bissell | ZOOM: Performing Matrescence: Becoming and Unbecoming |
12 | Sarah Sudhoff | ZOOM: Mother Chew |
12:30 | Mateusz Kucab | ZOOM: Duty – Fulfillment – Stigma. Motherhood in the Dramas of Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska |
1:00 | Caron Greenblatt | ZOOM: Art Presentation Guardians at the Gate |
1:30 PM | Open Reading/ Discussion Roundtable | ZOOM: Portions of a text, poetry, spoken word |
FYI – Additional Sharing | Kiesa Kay | LINK to Losing our Birth Centers – Let’s not leave rural woman out of academic conversations: article |

See current CFPs and Read about the MoM Conference on the Museum of Motherhood Website [CLICK]. Archives are there as well.
I ❤ MOM Conference was held in St. Petersburg, Florida at the new MOM Art Annex 2017
The 10th Annual Academic M.O.M. Conference was held a CUNY, The Graduate Center in 2015, sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Dept. Find out more by going to the Museum of Motherhood and clicking here.

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