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Turning our attention to the audience
I'm developing a new project. Perhaps you'd like to help?
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Kathryn Jezer-Morton
May 2022
Big changes at Mothers Under the Influence
Hello all you beloved paying subscribers to Mothers Under the Influence! I have some news: Starting in May, this newsletter will be published at a new…
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April 2022
Are momfluencers getting more boring?
Maybe, but Bekah Martinez resists the trend.
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March 2022
Bump Hands
Thoughts on creating a meaningful enclosure around appropriate fatness, and on why posing for pictures sucks in general.
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Dirtying the feed
Much like how refined men of the 80s read Playboy “for the articles,” I follow most momfluencers “for the interiors.”
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February 2022
We tell ourselves stories in order to live/laugh/love
Plus: A helpful lesson from Led Zeppelin
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Nuke it from orbit
The nuclear family as Instagram's hermeneutic of home
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January 2022
The Poetics of Rudy Jude
Tony's wearing a gold chain in the wood-fired hot tub, and the time has come to discuss what's going on here.
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Rootin' tootin' charcutin'
Charcuterie boards as fantasies or nightmares of abundance
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December 2021
What worries me about making a family into a brand
It has nothing to do with the kids' privacy
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November 2021
October 2021
Letterboards: Why?
The birth, exploitation and death of an Instagram engagement tool
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