Why Our Family Doesn’t Allow Toy Guns
October 30th, 2017 | by Wendy Kennar
Before our son was born, my husband and I made a conscious decision that all toys in our home would
Monthly Archives: October 2017
BURROW: Part I
October 26th, 2017 | by Marnie Galloway
Burrow is a fictional poetic comic about identity transformation in the feral sleepless early months of new motherhood, partly inspired
Everyone Out Including the Baby
October 25th, 2017 | by Andrea Askowitz
At midnight, my midwife, Dana, drove me to the Hollywood Birth Center. My mom, her boyfriend Bob, and my two
“We Might Never Know Why” — Comics from THE FACTS OF LIFE
October 24th, 2017 | by Paula Knight
Excerpted from The Facts of Life, newly published by Penn State University Press in the Graphic Medicine series. “With humor,
WHAT TIME IS IT: When a Feminist Shakes it for Morris Day
October 19th, 2017 | by Gayle Brandeis
I thought I was hallucinating. A couple of days before, I had been sitting next to my six year old
Peculiar Mothers: A Correspondence between Ariel Gore and Gayle Brandeis
October 19th, 2017 | by Mutha Magazine
Mama-writers Ariel Gore and Gayle Brandeis have new and wildly complementary books out this fall: Ariel’s We Were Witches (The
Paper Hearts: On the Joys of Journaling
October 13th, 2017 | by Leesa Cross-Smith
This summer, I implemented mandatory quiet journaling time for my kids. Before our children were in school and even still
MUTHA UP at the San Francisco Lit Crawl THIS WEEKEND!
October 11th, 2017 | by Mutha Magazine
MUTHA Magazine is back at Lit Crawl, with mamas on the mic telling stories about the joy and heartbreak and
America and Eternity: A Letter to My Three Year Old
October 9th, 2017 | by Juniper Fitzgerald
Redacted], My dearest child. When my belly swelled with your imminence, I collected every queer children’s book I could get
Chasing Respectability
October 3rd, 2017 | by Jen Bryant
Recently, my sixteen year old son and I went out to dinner at a local pizza place. Homework-free evenings are