Celebrate Mothers. Value Motherhood.

Mother's Day should be our favorite holiday. It is our unofficial anniversary as an organization (year one!), the anniversary of the #DreamMaternity movement (year two!), a day to celebrate and love on all the mothers in our lives.

But we need to acknowledge and give space for the reality of this year.

This year was hard on mothers -- impossible for some, a setback for many. Women dropped out of the workforce in record numbers, reaching a gender imbalance that has not been seen since the 1980s.

A pandemic is one thing, but what happened along the way was the shameful uncovering of the systemic failures to support working mothers.

We, mothers, deserve so much more this Mother’s Day. We deserve to be seen for EVERYTHING that we are. We deserve to be celebrated AND valued. We deserve support. We deserve change.

For the mothers in our community, we see you. Your stories motivate us every day. The joy. The vulnerability. The struggle. The passion. The mess. The small victories. We see you and we honor you and we are fighting for you.

At &Mother, we are excited for the year to come -- to continue our work changing the narrative on *and mother*-hood; to identify and address the barriers that have held women back, starting in Sports; to provide new tools, strategies, and resources to improve inclusivity and support for mothers and motherhood.  

More announcements coming soon! Stay tuned! 

And, as always, if you are able and want to help us move our mission forward, please consider donating!