thinkin about meryl & motherhood performance

Still riding the high/terror of witnessing Meryl Streep scream in last night’s Big Little Lies season premiere, so we’re filling the gaping void that will exist between now and Sunday by catching up with the recent surplus of rather meta mom content that’s been hitting the internet, and you should, too, if you’re into thinking about the complicated performance that is motherhood:

The Mommy Blog Is Dead. Long Live the Mommy Blog, by Lyz Lenz for Topic: As a former mommy blogger herself, Lenz goes to a mom content convention (Mom-Con?) and looks at the awkwardly symbiotic relationship between digitizing motherhood and the brands who want in.

Online Momming in the ‘Perfectly Imperfect’ Age, by Kathryn Jezer-Morton for The Cut: This one has a great summary of the basic history of mommy blogging, and how the trend towards being nonjudgmental/“perfectly imperfect” is still...a little bit disingenuous?

She was the “queen of the mommy bloggers.” Then her life fell apart, by Chavie Lieber for Vox: This profile zeroes in on the overlap between Mormon bloggers and the general ~lifestyle internet~, and what happens when the implosion of your personal life gets extremely visible.

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P.S. Not mom content, but Deez Links got interviewed for the Freelance Pod podcast last Friday! We talked about the inspiration for this newsletter and the general impermanence of digital content, it was v. casual.