MAD ORCA is becoming MOTHERHOOD UNTIL YESTERDAY

Because I am not that mad afterall

Hi everyone,

Lots of new faces here after my Instagram reel went viral last weekend. So excited to have you! Welcome.

Given that this newsletter is actually starting to get some real attention, I’ve decided to make a few changes.

First, I’ve decided to change the name from Mad Orca to Motherhood Until Yesterday. Although I love the Orca metaphor (you can check that out here if you missed it), the truth is that I am not an Orca and, perhaps more importantly, I am not that mad.

Maybe I should be mad, but at who? The inventor of The Patriarchy? Can someone please point me in his direction because we have not been introduced. To be clear, I believe patriarchy = bad and unregulated capitalism = bad (and maybe all capitalism = bad? not sure where I stand on this yet) but also, it’s not anyone’s fault. People are just the product of their environments and biology interacting. Nothing more, nothing less. (If you disagree, now might be a good time to unsubscribe - not because I have anything against you but because you might find this newsletter spikes your blood pressure and that is bad for your health).

That doesn’t mean we can’t enact change: why else would I bother doing this work? It just means that we should be curious about how we got here and why. In general, I think curiosity is more productive than anger (I also think we focus too much on productivity in our culture, but that’s another story). You get my point. Now that I am thinking about it, maybe this newsletter should be called The Curious Bipedal Primate or The Curious Bipedal Mommy Primate… Nah, I’ve already committed. Can you tell I have undiagnosed ADD?

Anyway, the other thing I might start doing is charging for some posts. Honestly it feels like a crazy move given that most people won’t read even if you pay them to. Even video content is getting harder to charge for. Afterall, you can have a Netflix account for only $7.99/month and think of all of the terrible content you get for that low price! However, it appears that some angelic humans out there ARE actually willing to pay to read my newsletter and I have calculated that if everyone paid me $1 per month and I continue to grow at the rate I am growing then by the end of the year I might be able to afford to pay my nanny, my rent AND eat avocado toast whenever I feel like it (without selling my soul to the weird-talking-baby-toy companies that want me to promote them on Instagram). Don’t worry: most posts will still be free and the ones I charge for will be cheap.

Are you still with me? I’m so excited to dig in and learn about all things motherhood and evolution and hunter-gatherer with you.

Love,

Elena (who is not that mad, mostly just curious)