Patricia Froes

Maternity is instinctive or is it a social construction? How can a period surrounded by expectations of happiness and achievement be, at the same time, such an anticlimax, so exhausting and melancholy? A director-mother talks to other mothers about the maternal instinct, guilt and loneliness, reflecting on the complexities and riches of maternity.

On 13 March 2020, several governors in Brazil imposed social isolation restrictions in their states as an effort to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. President Jair Bolsonaro disagreed.

There is a history of the indigenous people before colonization. There is a history of black people before slavery. There is a history of women before patriarchy. Yes, there is.

Maternity is instinctive or is it a social construction? How can a period surrounded by expectations of happiness and achievement be, at the same time, such an anticlimax, so exhausting and melancholy? A director-mother talks to other mothers about the maternal instinct, guilt and loneliness, reflecting on the complexities and riches of maternity.

Maternity is instinctive or is it a social construction? How can a period surrounded by expectations of happiness and achievement be, at the same time, such an anticlimax, so exhausting and melancholy? A director-mother talks to other mothers about the maternal instinct, guilt and loneliness, reflecting on the complexities and riches of maternity.

On 13 March 2020, several governors in Brazil imposed social isolation restrictions in their states as an effort to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. President Jair Bolsonaro disagreed.

On 13 March 2020, several governors in Brazil imposed social isolation restrictions in their states as an effort to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. President Jair Bolsonaro disagreed.

There is a history of the indigenous people before colonization. There is a history of black people before slavery. There is a history of women before patriarchy. Yes, there is.