To be published: Q2 2025
Breathlessness. How to be a good mother when community is disappearing from society? Lucie Koudelková Jesenská writes about a sensitive topic resonating in the contemporary public space in the form of a remembering the time when women walked around the world with their breasts exposed and drank water from springs, a time of ancient cetaceans and pterodactyls, a time when a mother of a child was not only the real mother, but the entire village community. Time before the plastic jungle and playgrounds.
Along with the vivid images of the playing beasts, Paleozoic and the swelling bodies of new mothers, it brings the reader reflections on division, emptiness and missing desire, alongside the themes of nurture, the family circle, fear and apprehension, bodily boundaries and unsolicited advice. And most importantly, countless questions and points of view for the search for answers. Can you be a good mother even if you slap your child?