MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS

​It's May. Time for Mothers & Daughters!

​When I announced the themes for 2026, Mothers & Daughters, our storytellers filled the slots in record time…and I have the wait list to prove it.

​Everyone telling a story for this slam is a daughter. Our mothers were daughters, too.

​Why is our most formative relationship often the most complicated?

​Which of us is going to say their mother was their best friend? How many of us might feel jealous? How many of us won’t believe them? And who’s going to tell a harder story? One that’s not so rosy. We love our mothers. Sometimes we hate them. Our mothers love us, and sometimes they hate us, too.

​Then we grow up and discover––like it or not––that might have become them. EEK.

​We’re gathering to tell those stories, the ones about the women who brought us into the world, through birth or adoption, and the ones about the daughters we’ve raised.

​Not having ever been a mother of another human being (dogs & cats only), I won’t have that story to tell, but yes, I have a mother, too. Even when I don’t like her and she’s not liking me very much, we love each other at the bottom of all of it.