“Go easy on yourself, mama,” is White Privilege at its Peak

As a white mother, I am not held to the same standard that a woman of color is held to, and it’s time to acknowledge that

There’s a pervasive genre of meme on the mommy internet. I remember it from the mommy blogging days back in the mid-00s and I see it pop up every couple days in my social feeds still in 2022. Sometimes it’s a “confessional” video, sometimes it’s just some word art, other times it’s a list of things you “don’t need” to be doing…