Slang

A scroll through social media comments will reveal instances of “mother” or “she’s mothering” in replies that have seemingly no relation to moms. Don’t worry — we’re here to decipher the Gen Z slang and give you a history lesson on how “mother” became a superlative worthy of a queen. 

The origin is not so far off from the dictionary definition of mother: “a woman in relation to her child or children.” In the 1970s, the drag performers Crystal La Beija and Lottie LaBeija founded drag balls, events where performers would walk the runway in various fashion and culture-related categories....