Maternal Ecologies: A Story in Three Parts


In May 2010 I gave birth to a four-pound, nine-ounce baby boy, two months prematurely. In response to the deep ways that the visceral materiality of my everyday was rearranged by this event, I began a series of daily practices organized at the intersection of feminist politics and performance art. These emerged from my need to find new ways, after the birth of my son, of thinking across practice-theory lines, as an artist-mother-theorist working in the academy, both unwilling and unable to separate my status as mother from my status as artist or academic.