Maternal rage
The sound you hear when containment fails and the maternal mask burns off.
Maternal rage erupts not from fragility, but from forced composure, bureaucratic silence, and watching your child harmed by systems that demand your cooperation while delivering nothing but delay. It is not hysteria; it is history. It is the record of every unanswered email, every performative IEP meeting, every appeal process designed to exhaust. This tag collects writing that centres maternal anger as testimony, strategy, and refusal—and insists that rage is not the problem. The problem is what we had to swallow to survive this long.
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Erased voices: mothers and the schoolhouse
Imagine a mother pleading at a school meeting, desperate for support for her child, only to be met with suspicion. In today’s BC schools, some mothers say they’ve been branded “too emotional” or even unfit for fighting for their kids. Instead of solutions, educators have been known to shift blame onto parents: a BC resource…
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Maternal scream: embodied rage in a system that punishes and smiles
This rage didn’t appear in a vacuum. It was not spontaneous. It is the inevitable consequence of a system that harms children while demanding that mothers smile back. It is what happens when a process is engineered to fail your child and then punishes you for noticing. They built the conditions. You simply refused to…
