Mother’s Day Reclamation

Happy MOTHER'S Day!

“There is no human alive today that was not created and held inside the living altar of a woman,” Regina Thomashaur. 

The origins of Mother’s Day dates back to ancient Greek and Roman traditions. In 16^th century England, on “Mothering Sundays” you would visit your mother and bake a cake for her. The USA is one of many countries to celebrate a nationally recognized mother’s day on the 2nd Sunday in May. USA mother and activist Anna Maria Jarvis campaigned for a nationally recognized “Mother’s Day” after the death of her own mother in 1905. “Mother Jarvis” was a community organizer who started mother’s work groups, which brought together mothers working to improve public health and food safety in their communities. Mother’s Day in the U.S. originally celebrated the labor and activism of mothers.

Motherhood is a sacred role. Women are the ONLY human beings that can gestate and give birth. Women carry all the risk in pregnancy and childbirth. To this day, motherhood can still sometimes be a death sentence. Every day, 830 women globally die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Pregnancy and childbirth is the leading cause of death in girls 15-19 in economically impoverished nations. Motherhood is a risk. To be a mother takes courage. As the quote above says, everyone who is alive is here because of our mother. The word “mother” is a sacred word that belongs to the women who bring forth all life. It is profane when the word “mother” is changed to include men. It is profane when mothers are called birthers, breeders, chest feeders, birthing parents, etc. But this is just what is happening on a global scale, and the UN is one of the engineers of this redefinition in language and law.

The 2022 UN Sustainability Goal 5 has enshrined “gender identity” into the UN global agenda as researched by K. Yang. This international agenda decimates the legal distinctions between the sexes and destroy the sex based rights of women and girls. The ramifications of this sustainability goal means that initiatives originally presented to further rights for females worldwide are now being directed towards the promotion of policies that undermine the needs and rights of women and girls to access single-sex spaces, and which allow males to legally identify themselves as women and invade female spaces despite the fact that males are not women and can never become biologically female.

In memory of the original goals of Mother’s Day to celebrate the activism of mothers, let us all reclaim the word “mother” for our sex. Women/girls are wholly unique human beings from men/boys. And women are the ONLY humans that experience pregnancy and give birth. Women do not consent to the redefinition of our language and we do not consent to the erosion of the sex-based safeguarding provisions our foremothers fought for and won. 

Our mothers labored to bring us into this world, we stand in respect of our mothers’ labor. Every mother knows what a woman is in the depth of her womb. Every mother proudly delights to hear her child say for the first time, mamma, ma, mummy, mommy, madre, mae, mater, modir, mam, me, makuahine, mathair, mor, majko, etc., And on this day, we will stand up to reclaim the word “mother” for the women of the world. We will not be redefined!