Postponement News

May 13, 2024 Matilda McDermott

Photo of a group of women wearing colourful clothes and costumes. Some are sitting, some standing. — Photo by Mika Rosenfeld

Since our successful ACE bid last summer we have been researching, preparing and sharing our plans to relaunch with a more inclusive identity, a wider programme of online activities and a more coherent and exciting membership offer. We were due to do this in early June.

Unfortunately Matilda, M/Others Who Make’s founder and director, has been taken quite seriously ill and will be in hospital for the next few months, so we have decided to postpone our relaunch. All regional in-person hub activities will continue as usual, as will our regular monthly online peer support group. Go here to see dates.

Thank you for your patience and continued support during this time.

Meanwhile, on a more upbeat note, please see below some of the wonderful photos, taken by Mika Rosenfeld, during MWM’s 10th Birthday Party, held at Battersea Arts Centre at the end of March. Thank you to all who attended, celebrated the last ten years, and helped us start to create a new look for the next.

If you have any urgent queries over the summer months, please contact MWM’s producer Rachael Burton.

We hope to be back in touch in the autumn.

We're looking for a freelance Communications Manager

October 3, 2023 Rachael Burton

Photograph of lots of people sitting chattingon the floor in circles. In the foreground is a person with their back to the camera in a red jumper with brown and green hair. — Photo by Lisa Whiting

M/Others Who Make is looking for a freelance Communications Manager to support the rebranding and relaunch of our MWM matronage membership scheme.

We’re looking for expressions of interest from individuals with expertise in strategic comms and marketing in the arts sector. You’ll be working in a small team and need the ability to move between strategic decisions and hands-on delivery. You’ll need to be digitally savvy, with both copywriting and design skills. Ideally, you’d be ready to start work at the start of November, or shortly afterwards.

We are rebranding to introduce a forward slash - M/Others Who Make - into our name and relaunching our M/WM matronage offer in February 2024.

Why M/Others who Make?

July 1, 2023 Matilda Leyser

A photo of Matilda, a white woman with short brown hair, sitting in a chair looking up at her two children standing on a bench. — Photo by Mika Rosenfeld

We are delighted to introduce M/Others Who Make, a year-long project funded by Arts Council England, enabling us to become more sustainable and inclusive in every way. We will explore what it means to introduce a forward slash to our name to include women and non-binary people who do not identify as mothers but would benefit from our offer. Read on below….

Mothers who Make began in the summer of 2014 - incredibly that makes it now nine years old. And I still get challenged, as I did then, about why it’s for mums. Why exclude the dads? “They have challenges too!” “Why isn’t it Parents who Make?” “Isn’t it being for mums unhelpful if we are to support fathers to step up and care?”

The very first blog I wrote for Mothers who Make was in answer to these challenges. Though much has changed in the last nine years, I stand by the position I outlined then. You can read the full thing here, but the gist of it is this: I think it’s important not to confuse ‘equal’ with ‘the same as.’ I want to support and celebrate difference. And there are differences - whether you articulate them as historical, cultural, physical - between those that identify as mothers and those that call themselves fathers. I would love for someone to run a ‘Fathers who Make’ or a ‘Parents who Make’ - and I even hope that, in running MWM, it inspires or invites this possibility - but, for now, because women hold the vast majority of caring roles, and because this labour, and gender, is still undervalued, I want to hold space for and validate the particular experience of mothers.

BUT…

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