Damaged, Like My Son
October 19th, 2021 | by Kimberly Dark
It’s even hard to watch our children struggle when they are not helpless, when they have simply messed something up and need to work to fix it.
Browsing the "Books" Tag
Body Lore: An Excerpt from THE OTHER MOTHERS
February 26th, 2021 | by Jennifer Berney
Culturally, we tend to conflate three disparate things: sexual desire, the impulse to nurture, the ability to conceive and bear a child. We act as if a woman’s longing is proportionate to her fertility. I longed deeply, and therefore I was fertile—or so my logic went
“Getting My Arms Around the Thousands of Pieces”: Jessica O’Dwyer on Her New Novel and the Complexities of Adoption
October 27th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
"The 'triad' is the birth or first mother, the child, and the adoptive parent. You can’t discuss adoption without considering each one of these."
Get Your Swish On: Talking with LIL MISS HOT MESS about how THE HIPS ON THE DRAG QUEEN GO SWISH, SWISH, SWISH
June 24th, 2020 | by Mutha Magazine
Celebrate Pride with kids with this awesome Drag Queen Story Hour picturebook!
“You’re Doing It Wrong!”: An Interview with Margaret M. Quinlan & Bethany Johnson
June 22nd, 2020 | by Rachel Berger
If the target is based on a mythical reality, then trying to match it is a waste of time. The enraging thing for me is, why do we construct a mythical target and then shame people for not reaching it?
Creating Art Alongside Danger: An Interview with Carol Ann Davis, author of THE NAIL IN THE TREE
June 16th, 2020 | by Jennifer Jordán Schaller
I think it’s our fate in life, as humans, to go through these events unprepared because what can prepare you for senseless loss
Aya de Leon is TALKING TO HERSELF…about her new chapter book EQUALITY GIRLS
June 9th, 2020 | by Aya de Leon
I am officially interviewing myself here…Moms getting it done!
When I am Mothering in Italian: An Interview With Author Joanna Clapps Herman.
February 28th, 2020 | by Lisa Wilde
In her new book, Quando Sono Italiana/When I am Italian (SUNY press, 2019), Joanna Clapps Herman looks at what it means to be raised as an Italian in America—coming from a culture where, as she writes, “children are more central to life than even food.”
“As Complex as Childhood, as Complex as the World”: Author Shea Tuttle on Mister Rogers
December 4th, 2019 | by Cheryl Klein
"Fred Rogers reminds me, in (at least some of) the frustrating moments, to take a breath and consider what’s happening inside of my kids."
“My Children Are Not Problems”: Imani Perry Talks to Nefertiti Austin About BREATHE: A Letter to My Sons
September 23rd, 2019 | by Nefertiti Austin
It was my pleasure to read and reflect on Dr. Imani Perry’s Breathe: A Letter to My Sons. Warm and smart,
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