Illustrating the myriad ways that mothers provide for their childrenpiloting airplanes, washing floors, or dancing at a strip clubthis book is the first to depict a sex-worker parent. It provides an expanded notion of working mothers and challenges the idea that only some jobs result in good parenting. Were reminded that, while every mamas work looks different, every mama works to make their babys world better.
Groundbreaking in its positive portrayal of a sex-working mother,How Mamas Careopens up a conversation to question the assumption that certain types of work make parents unfit and vulnerable to the loss of their children to the state. It furthers the conversation begun by earlier feminist children's books about working mothers and non-traditional family arrangements. Essential to progressive parenting collections, distinctive art and an accessible story demonstrates the many practical, material forms of maternal love.
Juniper Fitzgerald's writing comes from realizing there were no books addressing the particular stigma she faces as a former sex worker and mother. For more than a decade, she has worked as a sex worker and contributed to sex workers' rights advocacy; her PhD also focused on these issues. Her writing has been published onJezebel,Tits and Sass, andMUTHA. She is active in several sex workers' rights organizations such as The Red Umbrella Project and SWOP.
Illustrator Elise Peterson's work and words have been featured in publications such asNew York Magazine,Nylon,Elle, andLenny Letter; she speaks often on the impact of her experience with sex work on her art and advocacy.The book tour forHow Mamas Carewill include readings in at least four US cities. The New York launch will be a combined author-and-illustrator event that will also draw heavily from Elise Peterson's local community, as well as from the sex workersls=
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