Miriam Mutebi, Breast Surgical Oncologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Aga Khan University Hospital, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Mother’s Day always leaves me reflective the day after.
Yesterday, I spent some time with my mother, and I found myself deeply moved by something very simple: being cared for again.
To be checked on. To be fussed over. To have someone quietly anticipate your needs before you say them out loud.
It reminded me how much of women’s labour lives in these invisible spaces…
The remembering. The carrying. The emotional tending of families and lives.
And it also made me think of those navigating this season without their mothers. Those grieving. Those carrying memory where presence used to be.
Once the flowers and celebrations fade, I find myself wondering:
How do we move beyond celebrating women and mothers symbolically to genuinely supporting them?
Not just through words or one day of recognition, but through the systems we build, the workplaces we shape, the care structures we normalise, and the burdens we choose not to leave women carrying alone.
Perhaps that is the work after Mother’s Day.”
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