Nouvelles

Honouring All the Ways Motherhood Shows Up

We also want to take a moment to honour the full, expansive definition of motherhood. The aunties and grandmothers. The chosen family. The Two-Spirit elders who have carried and protected culture through generations of hardship. The friends who mother us when we need it most.

I'm 69 years old, and I am Métis. I grew up carrying that identity quietly — the way many of us do — learning its weight and its beauty slowly, over time.