In the post-pandemic years, the limits of what’s sayable about motherhood have been loosely redrawn around softness and tenderness. Slowing down and doing less became chic, a mark of status and intelligence. It’s cool to take all your PTO — and damning to confess to being a workaholic. In the latest edition of #Brooding, Kathryn Jezer-Morton (kjezermo) explores how a mother admitting that her love of work comes at a cost to her family has become one of our rare bipartisan taboos. Subscribe to read it in full at the link in bio. Illustration: Hannah Buckman