I'm Major Jackson and this is the slowdown.

And this is the slowdown.

One of the horrors of the last century has to be the demonization of single mothers. Mother-only families have been blamed for everything from the breakdown of

traditional morals in America to so-called anti-social behavior among youth and

everything in between.

While economic survival in a single parent home proves difficult to most,

especially after the dismantling of federal support systems,

the stories of single mothers inspiring their children abound.

Famous athletes, Federal judges, presidents, including Thomas Jefferson,

and poets such as Amanda Gorman

were raised by devoted mothers who provided loving and supportive environments

that instilled can do attitudes in their children.

At the center of the debate is women's right to fully claim and control the narratives around their bodies, beyond societal mores and expectations.

Today's poem broadcasts a necessary remembrance and mapping of our mother's physical cells, bodies that perhaps not only gave us life, but in all their manifestations served as the source of our stability and gains.

An open call to single daughters of single mothers by Katie Maria.

Come and bring your mother's bodies.

Bring her naked body and her clothed body. The body she

had in the kitchen and on the couch. Her walking out the door body and her

wake up body. Bring her tight jeans body, her

cleaning body. Bring the drive you to school body and the day job body and

bage work pants. Bring her bathing suit body, her

parallel parking body, her laughing body, her popcorn shovel mouth body. her

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