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Bad Mothers: April roundup

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Monica Cardenas
Apr 28, 2025
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This month I spent a week in Sicily on a walking holiday with a troupe of brilliant women.

I was overwhelmed with ideas for new essays and I can’t wait to get started. Here’s some of the best things I’ve read/seen/listened to this month.

This month:

Chappell Roan expressed a personal opinion about what she has observed of people close to her, and the internet freaked out. We can’t have anybody acknowledging that being a mother is hard work!

On this subject, Kate Manne recently published her best advice for the big motherhood question: Don’t Have Children. It’s a relatively short piece that shows how motherhood is burdensome and unfair to women.

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