VC Faculty Lounge, Academic Block (first floor), LUMS
Speaker: Dr. Amalie Goul Dueholm (LUMS)
Popular culture is full of imaginaries and images of mothers. Good mothers, bad mothers, mothers who are a mess. Mothers who work tirelessly to secure their children’s education, mothers who stay in bad marriages for the sake of their children, mothers who work juggle fulltime work and then return home to take care of the family. Through these stories the figure of the mother gets simultaneously exceptionalised while acts of ‘mothering’ get naturalised as women’s work.
Through this interactive workshop led by Dr. Amalie Goul Dueholm (LUMS), participants examined the stories media tells about mothers and considered the knowledge and values these images and narratives produce. They then engaged in personal storytelling practices to imagine alternative kinship structures and forms of care that are often elided by dominant maternal imaginaries.
MEDIA GALLERY
