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Website
The Artist's website
Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chloemarsden.nz/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@chloemarsden.nz</a>
Topic
Past work has explored female reproduction and her personal experience of infertility, miscarriages and IVF treatment. My current work is a response to my identity transformation of becoming a mother.
infertility
miscarriages
IVF
identity transformation
mother
Medium
I am a practice based visual artist. I work across mediums; drawing, painting, collage and photography- to find the perfect translation for each project.
drawing
painting
collage
photography
Artist Statement
My journey to become a mother started many years before I gave birth to my son. Years of fertility problems gave me a lot of time to reflect upon the implications both physically and emotionally, of becoming a mother. However, nothing would prepare me for the confusing mix of emotions I felt when my son finally arrived. I constantly felt split, in two minds about everything. The strong urge to protect accompanied by fear of the tremendous responsibility. I was confused by the power and powerlessness of my new role. I was no longer just my-self any more. I experienced deep love but also craved physical space. Memories of my own childhood, a severe lack of sleep and unrealistic expectations distorted my sense of reality. My current work focuses on my own identity transformation of becoming a mother and the often conflicting, all-consuming feelings experienced in motherhood. These contradictory emotions are described as maternal ambivalence. I believe a mother needs to know herself, to own up to the diverse, conflicting, overwhelming feelings brought up by motherhood. Whether she stays at home, goes out to work, is partnered or single. A mother who can face her own inner turmoil can in turn make sense of her child. If a mother can be herself with a child, and honestly express joy, anger, love, contentment - a full range of emotions - that will help the child to know themselves. By fully recognizing this early experience mothers -to- be could be made more aware they are entering a confusing and disorienting time. They could be better emotionally equipped to ride the experience of maternal ambivalence.
Location
The location of the interview
Wellington
New Zealand
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Chloё Marsden
Title
A name given to the resource
Chloё Marsden
collage
drawing
infertility
IVF
miscarriage
mother
painting
photography
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Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.alicestonecollins.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.alicestonecollins.com</a>
Topic
caregiver
mother
suburban
mundane
family
home
stasis
comfort
Medium
gouache
paper
collage
Artist Statement
I am interested in the everyday. The mundane. And I look for beauty in these moments. Part of this is my experience with having kids. The repetition. The routine. The thousands of lunches packed and faces wiped. There is a common thread that all mothers have in these experiences, but also a true unique quality to these spaces in our lives. In my current pieces I'm exploring how we navigate the restraints often felt while in the trenches of motherhood and the contrasting energies of stasis and and comfort these borders bring. How does this impact the way we engage with our environment and each other?
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Alice Stone-Collins
Title
A name given to the resource
Alice Stone-Collins
caregiver
collage
comfort
family
gouache
home
paper
stasis
suburban
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2664e6c3604fd6fd2f48810c08b3908c
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Title
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.karen-dana.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.karen-dana.com</a>
Medium
oil paintings
Artist Statement
My work depicts the multiple roles that women hands are supposed to inhabit. When I think of the women of my life, I want to visit that experience by approaching painting in various ways as an interpretation of their reality through their working hands. So, when I think of my grandmother knitting I will apply paint in a way yarn interlaces itself, positioning my hands almost like when holding needles. Or when thinking of my aunt on our closest years together I remember her baking so I will treat painting as dough. <br /><br />Using painting as a way to understand feminism better and the way my own personal history has develop over the years. The gratification of seeing my own experience mirrored trough the research. Each attempt gives me something specific and tangible. <br /><br />Painting deepened my knowledge of a legacy that intersected with my aim to understand social identities as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter, as a sister, as an artist, as a friend, as a lover, as women. <br /><br />When I had moved, and moved again I have to leave things unfinished, try to find comfort in the little things I own. Having a family gives me a sense of belonging. I am rooted to these people. I am their mother, their wife and companion, their lover, they need me. Then I dream about moving away yet to another place, an unknown one, far from here… they move with me, if they stay, am I still myself? The roles I play are not me but sometimes they become my identity.
Topic
mother
domestic space
immigrant parents
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Title
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Karen Dana
domestic space
immigrant parents
mother
oil
oil painting
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Artist Parent Index
Person
An individual.
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.melissamurraynyc.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.melissamurraynyc.com</a>
Medium
watercolor
acrylic
ink on paper
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
Artist Statement
In my new series, Mother Tongue, I am exploring the emotions associated with Motherhood. Pulling imagery from personal domestic spaces I am creating a multidimensional metaphor reflecting on the moments one has when mothering another human being. This series is a space in which I explore feelings of loss, weight, clumsiness and a joy that can only come from selflessness. Each painting in the series represents a consecutive moment in a timeline from conception to present day. They are about making new spaces where there is no room, facing death while creating life, losing yourself through transformation, they are about fear and the unknown. Mother Tongue is the journey of giving yourself entirely to another person.
Topic
mother
mothering
motherhood
motherhood experience
mother and child
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
2019 Collage, Site:Brooklyn, NYC
2019 Every Woman Biennial, NYC
2018 Dynamic Intimacy, Kean University’s Howe Gallery, Union, NJ
2016 The Weight We Hold, Curated by Melissa Murray, Causey Contemporary, NYC
2016 Spring/Break Art Fair, NYC
2015 Echoes, A.I.R. Gallery, DUMBO, Brooklyn
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Title
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Melissa Murray
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Title
A name given to the resource
Artist Parent Organization Database
Service
An organization supporting artist parents.
Location
The location of the interview
Ireland
Topic
parenting artists
residencies
precarity
caretaking
reproductive labor
mother
father
time
money
children
family
feminist
home
creche
domestic labor
About
The Mothership Project is a network of parenting artists in Ireland. The Mothership Project aims to support parenting artists in the development of their practice and to encourage arts organisations to make the art world a more inclusive place for artists with children. The Mothership Project wants to see societal and institutional change for parents in the art world. Being a parent can be challenging at the best of times, but with precarious circumstances and incomes, and uncertain futures parenting artists can be doubly challenged within a society that is lacking many supports for those with children.
Organization Website
<a href="https://themothershipproject.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://themothershipproject.wordpress.com/</a>
<a href="https://themothershipproject.wordpress.com/2019/05/12/satellite-findings-publication-launch-16th-may-2019/">SATTELITE FINDINGS - Publication</a>
Organzation Director
The Mothership Project is currently managed collectively by four artists :
Leah Hillard, Michelle Browne, Seoidín O’Sullivan and Tara Kennedy. They organise and administer the workings of the network. There are many artist parents who have
contributed to this project and The Mothership exists through the collective effort and generosity of the many creative minds and caring bodies that have willed it into being.
Leah Hillard
Michelle Brown
Seoidín O’Sullivan
Tara Kennedy
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The Mothership Project
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Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="http://www.jessdobkin.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jessdobkin.com</a></p>
Medium
performance
social practice
Location
The location of the interview
Toronto
Canada
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I’ve been a working artist, curator, community activist and teacher for more than 25 years, creating and producing intimate solo performances, large-scale public happenings, socially engaged interventions and performance art workshops and lectures. My practice extends across black boxes and white cubes, art fairs and subway stations, international festivals, and single bathroom stalls. I’ve operated an artist-run newsstand in a vacant subway station kiosk, a soup kitchen for artists, a breast milk tasting bar, and a performance festival hub for kids. I’m forever inspired by the rebel queers, renegade witches, and other dyke moms I run with, and bound to many brilliant artists, activists, spell-casters and healers. <span class="s1">For many years I made performances that drew from my own experiences of trauma and transformation, intimacy and motherhood. More recently, I’ve experienced a shift in my practice, where my attention has turned to wider theoretical questions about the nature of performance itself to </span>ask questions about when, where, how we perform - in theatres and galleries, on social media, and in our everyday lives.</p>
Topic
abjection
activism
adulthood
aging
archive
art
art and research
artist mother
art making
artist parent
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autobiography
binary tensions
bioethics
biology
birth
birth and death
birth trauma
bleeding
body
body exploration
body transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
care
censorship
childhood
creative practice
creative strategies
cultural reproducers
culture
curating
curation
curator
curatorial practice
documentation
domestic labor
domestic life
domestic space
domesticity
early motherhood
early parenthood
empathy
ethics
exhaustion
family
family accessible event
family portrait
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
human body
humor
identity
interdisciplinary
intimacy
invisible labor
lactation
love
materiality
maternal
maternal body
maternal bodies
maternal care
maternal desire
maternal experience
memory
menstruation
mess
milk
mother
mother artist identity
mother as artist
mother body
mother/artist identity
mother/child relationship
motherhood and political context
motherhood
motherhood and art
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and creative practice
motherhood and social context
motherhood and studio practice
motherhood as art practice
mothering
mothers
nursing
nursing mothers
objectification
parent
parent artists
parent/child relationship
parenthood
parenting
parents
patriarchy
performativity
personal experience
play
subjectivity
power
public breastfeeding
public space
pumping
queer
queer identity
queer parenting
representation
representations of motherhood
research and art
resistance
ritual
rituals
sexuality
single mothers
single mother
social justice
social practice
stories
storytelling
theory
time
transformation
trauma
vagina
visual culture
woman
women
women and gender studies
women artists
women representation
women's health
women's identity
Exhibitions
Exhibitions in the Index that an artist has participated in. The two entries will be linked.
The Lactation Station Breast Milk Bar 2006, 2012, 2016
Imagined Family Portraits 2007 - ongoing
Free Childcare Provided 2013
Fee for Service 2006
Being Green 2009
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Title
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Jess Dobkin
abjection
activism
adulthood
ageing
archive
art
art and research
art making
artist mother
artist parent
artist-parents
artist/mother
artistic labor
artists with children
autobiography
binary tensions
bioethics
biology
birth
birth and death
birth trauma
bleeding
body
body exploration
body transformation
breast milk
breast pump
breastfeeding
breastmilk
Care
censorship
childhood
creative practice
creative strategies
cultural reproducers
culture
curating
curation
curator
curatorial practice
documentation
domestic labor
domestic life
domestic space
domesticity
early motherhood
early parenthood
empathy
ethics
exhaustion
family
family accessible event
family portrait
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
gender
gender roles
gender stereotypes
human body
humor
identity
interdisciplinary
intimacy
invisible labor
lactation
love
materiality
maternal
maternal bodies
maternal body
maternal care
maternal desire
maternal experience
memory
menstruation
mess
milk
mother
mother artist
mother artist identity
mother artists
mother as artist
mother body
mother/artist identity
mother/child relationship
motherhood
motherhood and art
motherhood and art practice
motherhood and creative practice
motherhood and political context
motherhood and social context
motherhood and studio practice
motherhood as art practice
mothering
mothers
nursing
nursing mothers
objectification
parent
parent artists
parent/child relationship
parenthood
parenting
parents
patriarchy
performativity
personal experience
play
power
public breastfeeding
public space
pumping
queer
queer identity
queer parenting
representation
representations of motherhood
research and art
resistance
ritual
rituals
sexuality
single mother
single mothers
social justice
social practice
Stories
storytelling
subjectivity
theory
time
transformation
trauma
vagina
visual culture
woman
women
women and gender studies
women artists
women representation
women’s health
women’s identity
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Website
The Artist's website
<p class="p1"><a href="jesstaylorartist.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">jesstaylorartist.com</a></p>
Medium
sculpture
new media
Location
The location of the interview
Adelaide
Australia
Artist Statement
<p class="p1">I am an early career artist whose practice explores my fascination with fictional horror through primarily digital methods of making. Within the broader realm of horror, I have a particular interest in monsters, voyeurism, and depictions of female brutality, sadism, and masochism. Using my own image and body exclusively, my work presents versions of womanhood that transgress the bounds of what we are taught is acceptable, uncanny spectres of female experience that society is keen to repress. Here, monstrosity is configured as a source of damnation and agency, reflecting womanhood as complex and contradictory.</p>
<p class="p2"></p>
<p class="p3">My own experience as a mother has been one of profound contradiction, of exhilarating highs and profound lows, of love and fury, comfort and trauma. I struggle to reconcile the fact that the greatest time in my life is also the one when it was the darkest, and that my body birthed a miracle but feels like a ruin. I am not as I was, but not quite sure what I am now; I’ve yet to turn into anything resembling the gargantuan mother archetype we’re fed, and too much of the old Jess remains for me to consider myself someone new. I have been transformed, reborn, reconfigured using the old parts. Some days those new parts feel like they were made of steel, making me infinitely stronger than I was, and other days that steel bites into my flesh, broken limbs fused back together suddenly failing to bear my weight.</p>
<p class="p4"></p>
<p class="p3">Motherhood is a monstrous condition; it is incredible and disturbing, beautiful and completely fucked up. Like monstrosity, it is transformative, and for the woman-monster, this transformation is a source of both agency and damnation, strength and weakness. My work since my son is in part an attempt to reconcile the contradiction inherent in my own experience of motherhood, and to bridge the divide between what I am and what we are told a mother should be.</p>
<p class="p3">Experiencing pregnancy for the second time has greatly influenced my work, causing me to reflect much more closely on the process of bearing a child. There is the strange bodily awareness and attempts to reconcile this cavernous space that exists within me, and evocations of my own paranoias as I imagine this space as a place of both hope and doom. I like to think there is also some absurdity when one looks at a ridiculous, bulbous woman, or my lady-giants, but there is also the tenderness of the nets that keep the babies close to her body, or the way a stomach is opened up to sate the curiosity of the smaller figures who peer inside. There is the sorrow of the figure on the bridge as she surveys the fallen before her (a mediation on periods in history where the practice of fallen-mothers ending their lives and the lives of their offspring was not only a grim expectation, but an act of redemption), and my attempt to see a ruin as a place of beauty and life.</p>
Topic
abjection
ambivalence
anger
anxiety
artist mother
attachment
autonomy
bad mother
birth
birth trauma
body transformation
boundaries
childbirth
contemporary
contemporary art practice
contradictions
domestic
family ties
female experience
female sexuality
feminine
femininity
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
fertility
grotesque
growth
guilt
identity
loneliness
longing
loss
loss of identity
maternal ambivalence
maternal anxiety
maternal body
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
mother
mother artist
motherhood
postpartum body
pregnancy
pregnant body
psychoanalysis
representation
science fiction
self portrait
technology
trauma
voyeurism
womb
women
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Title
A name given to the resource
Jess Taylor
abjection
ambivalence
anger
anxiety
artist mother
attachment
Australia
autonomy
bad mother
birth
birth trauma
body transformation
boundaries
childbirth
contemporary art
contemporary art practice
contradictions
domestic
family ties
female experience
female sexuality
feminine
femininity
feminism
feminist
feminist art
feminist art theory
feminist theory
fertility
grotesque
growth
guilt
identity
loneliness
longing
loss
loss of identity
maternal
maternal ambivalence
maternal anxiety
maternal bodies
maternal body
maternal desire
maternal experience
maternal fear
maternal guilt
mother
mother artist
motherhood
new media
postpartum body
pregnancy
pregnant body
psychoanalysis
representation
science fiction
sculpture
self portrait
technology
trauma
voyeurism
womb
women
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="https://sewingstories.com/">https://sewingstories.com/</a>
Medium
fiber
Location
The location of the interview
Westchester County
New York
Artist Statement
Being a parent, especially in today's frightening world, is not easy. Balancing that difficult task with art making is even harder. My art speaks to the challenges and joys of being both a mother and an artist.
Topic
mother guilt
raising kids in a frightening world
joys and parenthood
guilt
parenting
mother
motherhood and creative practice
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Title
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Heather G. Stoltz
fiber
guilt
joys and parenthood
mother
motherhood and creative practice
New York
parenting
Westchester County
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Name
Amanda Schilling
Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.amandaschilling.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.amandaschilling.com</a>
Topic
motherhood
domesticity
wife
mother
gender roles
loss of self
gender
Medium
photography
Artist Statement
No longer are we merely bombarded by mass-media images of attractive, smiling, jet-setting celebrity mothers telling us their happiest moments are spent raising their perfect children in their perfect spotless mansions, even as their nannies, housekeepers, dietitians, and chefs do all the real work. Now we are also attached to ever-present devices that continually broadcast similar messages from our own families and friends. How is it that everyone’s life is perfect but not our own? Why are we the only ones living boring lives in dirty houses with bratty children and cellulite? In direct opposition to the false idea of perfection imposed upon women through social and mass-media, I have created the photographic series Wife, Mother, Woman. For the series, I spend several hours at a time with women and their families documenting their interactions as they happen. None of the images in the series are planned or staged. I simply strive to be a forgotten presence, spending enough time with women and their families for them to act as they would if no one was looking. The work shows the reality of siblings fighting, dirty dishes in the sink, trash on the floor, and mothers pushing junk food and electronics at their children just to get a moment’s peace. Through the imaging of dozens of mothers, I emphasize the point that social and mass-media “realities” aren’t real and the personal is truly universal.
Location
The location of the interview
Houston
Texas
USA
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Amanda Schilling
Title
A name given to the resource
Amanda Schilling
domesticity
gender roles
Houston
loss of self
mother
motherhood
Texas
USA
wife
woman
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Artist Parent Index
Person
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Website
The Artist's website
<a href="http://www.miriamschaer.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.miriamschaer.com/</a>
Medium
books
sculpture
installation
photography
Location
The location of the interview
Brooklyn
New York
USA
Artist Statement
My work is an exploration of questions for which I find no easy answers. Usually, I use a variety of materials and media to build narratives or depict the complexity of situations not easily resolved. Recently, my work has focused on the relationship of motherhood, and the absence of motherhood, especially how women without children fare in a world that values women largely for their fertility. I became sensitized to the relationships between these conditions as my own mother began to exhibit signs of dementia. As we age, how do we negotiate the role reversals inherent in coping with parents who live beyond the point at which they can care for themselves, as they become, like small children, individuals cared for by their own children, now adults? Finding no simple answers, I hope my work stimulates a dialogue about these difficult issues.
Topic
mother
child
fertility
absence of motherhood
childlessness by choice
childlessness by chance
Publications
A catalog or monograph published by the artist
<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/463">The Maternal in Creative Work Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art, Contributor</a>
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Title
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Miriam Schaer
book
installation
photography
sculpture
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Artist Parent Index
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<a href="http://ireneperez.net" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://ireneperez.net</a>
Topic
motherhood
learning
education
feminism
ecology
body
care labor
autonomy
mother
daughter
mothering
conversation
sexuality
teaching
birth
empowerment
politics
economics
racism
migration
fanzines
music
death
language
comic books
feminist science fiction
Medium
textile based works
works on paper
sound
Artist Statement
I use textile materials and techniques, and most recently also sound, to explore experiences, as well as to make artworks that aim to become the vehicle to create new ones. My most recent project, New Universe: Discovering Other Possibilities, was born from my interest to explore the learning processes that occur between a mother and her child. What and how we learn, when do we learn, where do we learn, and from whom do we learn are some of the ideas that I have been investigating through and for this project. New Universe presents a group of works that take as their starting point moments and experiences within the family and in particular through the child-mother relationship. From these experiences, my creations explore ideas related to discovery, invention and the unknown. Thus, there are pieces born from daily activities such as playing, time spent with family and care labor, as well as those born from conversations with other parents and research. In its entirety the project included and exhibition, a workshop and several activities during a three month period at the Textile Museum and Documentation Centre in Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain. This project is still growing.
From Between My Legs, 2019, Textile based art piece.
STATEMENT:
From Between My Legs is a work born from the experience and exploration of motherhood through the interactions of the bodies of mother and daughter. Thus, this work, framed in relation to the natural world, refers to the acquired independence of the daughter's body, to the consciously feminist mothering practice and to the sexual pleasure of the body of the mother, events all of them that have the literal or metaphorically starting point in the place between the legs of the mother.
From between my legs
a new combative and vindicating being is born
that has made me rethink my limits
and the limits of what surrounds me.
From between my legs
is born the strength to understand
the world beyond binary conceptions.
From between my legs
an invigorating pleasure is born
and it makes me feel powerful.
Seeds For Resistance, 2017- ongoing, multidisciplinary (actions, works on paper, textile works)
STATEMENT:
Multidisciplinary project that stems from the conversations I have been having with my daughter. They are conversations about favorite colors, our bodies, super-(s)heros, comic books, feminism(s), illness, politics, sexuality, clothing, economics, racism, migration, fanzines, ecology, music, death, language and many other things. In progress.
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<a href="http://www.artistparentindex.com/items/show/452">Extended Self: Transformations and Connections</a>
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Irene Pérez
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Irene Pérez
care labor
ecology
feminism
learning
teaching
textile
the body