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Pregnancy, Art, and Censorship by Sarah Dalton

November 8, 2023

To the best of my knowledge, unless you include women’s private photo albums or personal social media feeds, there is no Madonna with Gestational Diabetes, Madonna of the Amniocentesis, or Madonna of the IV Tower and Labor and Delivery Room. I feel kinship with these images that portray the complexities of being pregnant. They challenge the demands for silence and censorship around experiences that do not follow the prescribed, imposed narrative of a joyful and celebratory pregnancy. These images revolve around loss, distress, powerlessness, a beauty often called grotesque, and, despite all its astonishing advances, a medical system that sometimes leaves more questions than answers.

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In Multimedia Tags Sarah Dalton, Pregnancy Art and Censorship, 2023 November, Multimedia, pregnancy, women
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Geography by Tita Ramirez

December 14, 2022

None of this was ever a problem before, but sitting there looking at that pee stick, it hit me: if I was going to have to explain the world to someone else, it was a huge problem. I had nine months to learn everything. More like eight, really.

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In Print, Fiction Tags latinx, latine, hispanic, cuban, pregnancy, life decisions, Tita Ramirez, Geography, Throwback, Archive, 2010 spring vol. 3 issue 1, 2022 December
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A Mother is Not a Zero-Sum Game by Elaine van der Geld

October 21, 2020

Before I became one, I’d never been interested in mothers. Those lumpen creatures with sagging faces, boxy, careless clothes, bad hair, beholden to a small dictator. Certainly, I’d never become one.

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In Nonfiction Tags A Mother is Not a Zero-Sum Game, Elaine van der Geld, nonfiction, essay, creative nonfiction, pregnancy, birth, 2020 October

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