Otherhood From detailing its links to

From detailing its links to melancholia and explaining its expression within Indigenous and migrant communities

It is very much a medicine itself

a Jane Ussher

edited by one of New Zealand’s foremost historians

Otherhood From detailing its links toInterrogating: Am I mother, or am I other? In Aotearoa the number of people who will never have children is growing and theyre pushing back against the narrative that if they dont, their lives will be somehow less than. Otherhoods essays are by writers whove felt on the outside looking in, whove lived unexpected lives and whove given the finger to social expectations. Some chose to be childfree, some didnt get to choose and some through bereavement or