"Let's give it up for the breastfeeding mamas!" he says pointing at a row of activists.
Softly strumming the keys like a singer of tales, he recalls the "tough babies and sweet mamas" of the fabled red-light district of Storyville, and such denizens as Sheep Bite, Toodlum Parker and Chicken Dick.
Some children have two mamas and some parents have two daddies - let's have that represented on the wall.
Here, cool mamas and papas push designer prams around the boutiques and meet friends for fika, the Swedish concept of a convivial get-together over a drink.
"I can't respond to all of you loving mamas but your comments have moved me to tears, thank you for your love and welcoming my raw and honest words," she said.
Books should be used that described children who have "two mamas" or "two daddies", she added, and anti-bullying policies should be updated to include the eradication of homophobic bullying.
As one East Sider explained, most successful criminals "have a wife, baby mamas, and girls on the side".
In a country of "organic mamas" that is also deeply sensitive to any signs of a re-ascendency of the ideas of "the man with the mustache" (as one organic farmer referred to Hitler), the story has caught on.
But the full-breasted, karate-chopping mamas she played in them--a nurse who blows away the pushers who have turned her sister into an addict (in "Coffy"); a hothead who avenges her boyfriend's murder (in "Foxy Brown")--have passed into film folklore.
"Guys I arrested back in the day are surprised I still remember their real names, their priors, what they did time for, the names of their baby mamas — all the data you store up in your head when you're a detective.
Beginning with the suffragists and "juke-joint mamas," the exhibit tells the stories of country artists like Maybelle Carter and the gospel and jazz singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe as well as Bessie Smith and Gertrude Rainey, known as "Ma," who were queens of the blues.
