Bad Moms
Published on April 14th, 2016 |
by Lisa Wilde
MOTHER LOAD: Lacunae, an Elegy for My Mother, Part III — by Lisa Wilde










To be continued…
I think the hardest part of my teenage years was the silence. As you can see in the drawings, by that point I was not allowing anyone in. I see this protection in a number of my students, and—as an adult—the challenge is to help someone feel safe to opening up.
Lacunae: Elegy For My Mother will be serialized over five parts, weekly, on MUTHA Magazine. Read the first chapters here and follow MUTHA for future installments.
Tags: abuse, bad mothers, death, hating your mother, I hated my mother, lacunae, living with mentally ill mother, losing a mother, separation, survival, Unmothered, unmothered mother
About the Author
Lisa Wilde
Lisa Wilde is an artist, writer and teacher. Her graphic book—Yo, Miss: A Graphic Look at High School (Microcosm Publishing, 2015) was called a “notable comic” by Bill Kartalopoulos in Best American Comics. Lisa’s second graphic book, Lacunae, was serialized at Muthamagazine.com in 2016. Her zine, Yo, Miss #6: Changes—Vengeance, Trump and the Eumenides was short-listed for Broken Pencil’s 2018 zine awards. She is a fellow of the Academy for Teachers.
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