Maternal Potential

"Lotte Latham is our most linguistically witty SWer writer. Maternal Potential is
pregnant with mourning, wisdom and tart humor, pondering motherhood in a world
where love is commodified yet persists.” Jack Skelley, (The Complete Fear of Kathy
Acker)

“Clever and funny and warm and truthful, Maternal Potential reminds us that 'mother'
is a verb - an act of care rather than a fixed identity. It is an exuberant love letter to
othermothers everywhere, and I think you should read it.” Prof. Helen Hester
(Post-Work, What It Is, Why It Matters and How We Get There)

"Maternal Potential is a cunt-shaped minefield. It makes fetal tissue into lyric and
gags god with a cervix. Latham writes like she’s sawing off the leg the patriarchy
gnawed through. It’s post-abortion punk scripture, contra-madonna gospel for the
bastards, sluts, and mothers-of-nil. I read it and bled.” P. Eldridge (Curator and
Founding Editor of SISSY ANARCHY)

“This book fucked my guts out.” Jonathan Blake Fostar (Editor-in-chief of Dream Boy
Book Club)

10% of profits from Maternal Potential will be donated to S.W.A.R.M.

Maternal Potential follows the protagonist, a thirty-something-year old s*x worker, who begins by contemplating motherhood, before herself brushing with it. A combination of auto-fiction and social-commentary, this raw experimental prose will make you squirm.

Lotte Latham is a writer, pornographer and activist with an untidy mind. Her creative practice centres around bodily autonomy and identifies the sexual as inherently political. Lotte’s debut publication “Dear Mr Andrews” was released in 2023 by “Guts Publishing”. She was long-listed for the Desperate Literature Prize ‘24 for her short story “Just Juice” and has been published in various journals such as “Peach Fuzz Magazine”, “Brossura” and “Dream Boy Book Club”. Lotte is a member of grass roots organisation S.W.A.R.M. (The Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement), a sex worker-led collective who raise awareness about sex worker’s rights and promote the decriminalisation of sex work globally.

60pp
115 x 180 x 4 mm
Cover: Laminated Gloss with Florescent Sticker
Contents: Silk

Limited edition centrefold:
220 x 350 mm
Silk