Ambivalent is a polyphonic tapestry, a collective body woven from voices that, from different places, times, and writing styles, dare to be vulnerable and narrate motherhood from lived, embodied, intimate experience. Each text is born from a singular experience: postpartum, exhaustion, desire, guilt, anger, grief, memory, childhood, overflowing love, and also love that questions.
This is not a book about "how to be a mother," nor does it seek to idealize or romanticize the experience. It is not a manual or a guide, but a choral work where writing becomes refuge, protest, and reconstruction.
In these pages, there is no single way to tell a story or to feel. Its power lies in that diversity: in giving space to contradiction, to what does not always find a name but has a voice in the texts gathered here, written by Jessica Delgadillo, Isabela Guajardo, Claudia Avila, Ale Ro...read more
