No Country for Mothers
A reckoning for motherhood in America.
Mother’s Day is always a little funny to me.
Because while the rest of the country spends one weekend a year remembering moms exist — buying flowers, making brunch reservations, posting tributes online — my team and I here at Moms First spend every single day thinking about mothers. Thinking about what moms carry. What this country asks of them. What they deserve.
And this year, something feels different.
I can feel it in the DMs and emails flooding our inboxes. I can feel it in the messages from moms asking how to bring women together, how to organize in their communities. I can feel it in the sheer energy surrounding our documentary — No Country for Mothers — a title that I’m so proud to finally be able to officially share with you today.
This past week, our film broke the world record for the most producers ever credited on a documentary. More than 2,500 mothers, caregivers, and advocates signed on as associate producers, shattering a record that had stood since 1991.
And honestly? Of course moms did that. That’s what moms do.
Today, we released the trailer for No Country for Mothers, so if you haven’t checked it out, take two minutes to watch it. The film investigates the lies American mothers have been told for generations: the manufactured divides, the impossible choices, the policies that were never built for us.
Over the last several years, I traveled the country meeting moms trying to survive systems that make motherhood harder than it needs to be. And through archival footage, intimate interviews, and storytelling, this film connects the personal to the political in a way that we hope makes it impossible to look away anymore.
The film premieres June 15 in New York City — and then it goes everywhere. And by everywhere, I mean everywhere. Over 1,000 screenings across all 50 states are already being planned as part of one of the largest grassroots documentary rollouts this country has ever seen.
And here’s the thing: you won’t be able to view this film on Netflix or stream it on YouTube.
That’s intentional.
Because the only way to watch this film is by watching it together, in community. By hosting a screening. Joining one. Gathering in living rooms, libraries, schools, backyards, churches, and community spaces.
Because that’s the whole point.
The medium is the message.
Mothers in this country have been isolated from one another for too long. Told our struggles are personal instead of systemic. Told to quietly figure it out on our own.
But something is shifting now.
You can feel moms biting at the bit for change. Hungry for honesty. Hungry for community. Hungry to stop blaming themselves for systems that were never designed to support them in the first place.
And when mothers start gathering together? History changes.
We’ve seen it before: Women organizing, women building movements, women refusing to accept the status quo anymore.
That’s what this moment feels like to me.
Not a trend.
Not a campaign.
A reckoning.
Every text, every DM, every screening, every conversation between moms saying “this isn’t working” is helping build something bigger than any one of us.
We are organizing. We are growing in strength. And change is gonna come.
This Mother’s Day, yes — take the flowers and the pancakes and the handmade cards.
But also know this: There is power in the air right now. And I have never been more proud to be in this fight with the fiercest force I know: moms.
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Marie Claire X Moms First Power Moms 2026 | Images: BFA
A Night Celebrating Power Moms
Last week, Marie Claire and Moms First gathered in New York City for our second annual Power Moms celebration — an evening dedicated to honoring mothers who are reshaping culture, business, sports, media, and public life while also doing the everyday invisible labor of motherhood.
The room was full of honesty, laughter, emotion, and the kind of energy that happens when women are allowed to show up as their full selves.
Power Moms has never been about perfection. It’s about rejecting the outdated idea that motherhood somehow makes women smaller, less ambitious, or less powerful.
If anything, motherhood sharpens us. It stretches us. It makes us more fearless about the world we want to build for our kids.
Huge thank you to Nikki Ogunnaike, Samantha Bee, the incredible teams at Marie Claire and Moms First, and all of the Power Moms who continue to inspire us every single day.
Join me in showing up for moms in style and solidarity!
This week, we’re proud to partner with Max Mara, a brand that has long understood that supporting women means seeing the full picture of their lives, including motherhood.
From May 7–10, a percentage of every Max Mara purchase will support Moms First, helping to fuel our work building a culture that actually supports moms.
As Maria Giulia Prezioso Maramotti, Max Mara’s Global Brand Ambassador, shares: “At Max Mara, putting women at the center has never been just a mission statement… we celebrate mothers not just in their extraordinary moments, but in their everyday lives.”
Shop in-store or at MaxMara.com from May 7-10 and help us keep pushing this movement forward. It’s a simple way to turn fashion into something that gives back.
This Mother’s Day, I hope you let yourself feel celebrated — not just for everything you do, but for the power you hold. There is something building among moms right now.
And honestly? The future of motherhood in America is going to look different because moms are building it together — and I cannot wait to see what we do next.
In solidarity,
Reshma Saujani