Suchergebnisse

On a Collision Course? Feminist Ideals and the Mothering Professional in Middle Age -- Falling Back, Springing Forward: An Older First-Time Mother's Experience of Time -- Balancing Motherhood, Work, and Mental Health in Midlife: One Mother's Personal Struggles -- Beyond Grasping for Straws in the Dark: Hospice as a Model for a Team-Oriented Approach to Mothering in Midlife -- Into and Out of the Fire: A Retrospective Journal -- Institutional Mothering: Middling between University, Home, and Jail -- Parenting through the Fog -- Lilia's World -- Grief -- Mothering Myself: A Journey with/to the Inner Child -- The Benefits and Injuries of Midlife Mothering through an Autoethnographic Lens: Or, Don't Call Me Grandma -- Midlife Burnout: Mothering, Multiple Roles, and Multiple Losses -- Failure Is Not an Option: Learning to Succeed at Parenting in Midlife -- Rock-a-Bye Baby: Mothering in Midlife -- Mother Unmoored: Letting Myself Be Lost, I Got Found -- My Mother's Mother -- Caricaturing Single, Midlife Motherhood in Vanity's Brief Encounters -- Taking Custody -- Home Economicus: Some Disjunctures in Midlife Mothering -- When Story Time Is Over: Mothering Adult Children by Practising Productive Silence.

In this article, we take a retrospective look at a prior collaboration that involved the process of making art together, dialogue, and sharing stories of experience. More specifically, we share with you some of the storied text fragments that were elicited when we looked again, and together, at our very first co-created hybrid image. By putting forward our cultural storied texts, we—two women academics who identify with the experience of being an immigrant—wish to contribute to ongoing discussions on the value of fostering the cultural imagination through artful community-based approaches that invite the creation of our images and incite the telling of our stories, in our own voices. As well, we hope to illustrate how the stories that surfaced from/on/into/through our re-engagement with our co-created image of a mermaid helped us come to deeper understandings of our cultural hybridity, characterized primarily by living, learning, and knowing in spaces of in-betweenness.