Mother of My Children is the debut studio album by American musician Katherine Paul under the moniker Black Belt Eagle Scout, released on August 25, 2017, through Good Cheer Records.
Paul wrote the album during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in 2017, after her mentor Geneviève Castrée had died, and as her relationship with her girlfriend was coming to an end.
[3] Tiny Mix Tapes' Frank Falisi wrote that the album "measures unknowable moments against a single identity.
[1] Tony Inglis of The Skinny remarked that "ideas of Native American identity are channelled through spiky guitar and showers of feedback" and takes "the lessons learned from a musical education built on Hole and Nirvana, to give voice to a range of universal emotions, magnified by her unique place in the world".
[5] Under the Radar's Max Freedman found that its "magic lies in how she details her life without explicitly naming the oppression she experiences on a daily basis" as "what shines [...] is the notion that, although the struggles of marginalized folks are fully real and in deep need of fixing, oppressed people work through the same personal, emotional, and romantic turmoil as all people do".