A term that redefines and reclaims “mothered” not as overprotected or smothered, but as nurtured into wholeness through the care, wisdom, and guidance of a collective of women or femme-identifying caretakers. It describes someone primarily raised and supported by the abundance of maternal figures—whether related by blood or chosen family—often in the absence of a paternal male presence.
To some I was fatherless, but in truth, I was mothered—held and shaped by the hands of many women who loved me into becoming.