Black Lives Matter

BLACK LIVES MATTER

June 8th, 2020 | by Ezra Stone

We at Mutha Magazine stand with the Movement for Black Lives: with black folks, black families, black writers and artists,


Adoption Stories

Two figures skydiving above the clouds; their parachutes are not yet visible

The Jump

June 28th, 2022 | by Jessica O'Dwyer

We’d arrived at the drop zone in the early morning, ready for my boyfriend to teach me to tandem jump.


Milk

First Unbroken Sleep

June 13th, 2022 | by Anna Laura Reeve

After four and a half hours of unbroken sleep       I feel like a swan  The ‘trying to


Sex

Close Encounters of the Third Base Kind

June 13th, 2022 | by Diana Whitney

We’d already established that he would not take my virginity. Given his chivalry, it was only fair to expect I would do Everything But


Poetry

Shadow of a palm frond against a light colored wall

In Search of Sense

June 9th, 2022 | by Jamie Asaye FitzGerald

I kiss my children, not once, but as many times as I can before they pull away



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  • “I was two years past my last period and in early menopause, thirty-four years old and recently divorced. Learning I was unable to conceive had thrown me into a state of despair. Now, with the world split open, alone in a pitch-black room with bloody feet, I knew I needed to act.” “My parents adopted me. At three months old, they chose and adopted a baby girl called April and named her Alexandria. He and Mama named me after him, his middle name being Alexander. I don’t remember the exact moment they told me they adopted me, but I must’ve been little because it feels as though I’ve always known.” #comics #loss #mothersanddaughters “Queers have the privilege of putting ourselves together; we do not come prepackaged. My gender does not rely on the external narratives we tell about men. If my masculinity is a form of political protest, so is my femininity. Those dykes who took me under their butch wings at seventeen taught me that softness and strength are not in opposition. It’s a lesson that has served me well in fatherhood.” #birth #dads #grief #fathersday #comics #art #poetry #newborns #sleep “Communicating desire and boundaries during a sexual encounter is a varsity-level skill. Today’s sex educators advocate for clear, enthusiastic, continuous consent, and I think I believe in that ideal. But this concept wasn’t imaginable when I was in high school. I was mute for so much of my early sex life, I feel unqualified to teach my girls how to navigate theirs.” #gunviolence #poetry #fear

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