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In Raboteau’s book of essays, “Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against ‘the Apocalypse,’” her care for her neighborhood and her maternal care for her children are connected as she faces an uncertain climate future.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2024

"Mothering Sunday" is very different from your previous features, "The Bang Gang" and "Girls of the Sun."

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2022

Take director Eva Husson’s Mothering Sunday—which was filmed entirely during the pandemic—for example.

From Slate • Jul. 16, 2021

Mothering has always played a part in Elizabeth’s portrayal on “The Crown” and is certainly a part of her the public has never been especially privy to before the show aired.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2020

An old English name for this Sunday is Mothering Sunday.

From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by Miller, William James