AVIVA BROWN Hi! I'm Aviva Brown, a black, Jewish wife, and mother of four biracial kids, aged 10, 8, 5, and 3 months. I’m currently writing a children’s book about our colorful Jewish family. So many adjectives, describing my life—black, Jewish, woman, mother, convert. I’m still becoming these things, becoming fully myself. It’s challenging. Addressing Representation I began ...
I get stares from people of all ages - I find people have a natural desire to categorize me before they speak to me, but I fuck up their ethnicity-determining algorithm somehow. Spanish speakers act surprised when I can’t answer back in Spanish. Many people will make small talk just long enough to ask which tan-skinned ...
Becoming a mother has been the most rewarding and challenging experience to date. As a child, I wondered why my mom was often stressed out and sometimes short tempered. Fast forward thirty years, and now I totally understand. She was consumed and overwhelmed by the mental load. I define the Mental Load as the organization ...
It is that time of year again, SUMMER BREAK IS HERE! Children love summer break for it is the time to relax, vacation, swim, sleep till noon, and play video games to their hearts content. Parents and caretakers are typically relaxed on their daily schedule and believe that Summer Break is when kids take a ...