When the Icons of Motherhood Fail You
November 28th, 2022 | by Cynthia DiTiberio
With Ma as my example, I learned that much of mothering was keeping others afloat, anticipating their needs, ensuring that everyone else is taken care of
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Mostly Functioning
November 21st, 2022 | by Robin Silbergleid
somehow I have raised a semi-adult person who is EMS-certified and capable of doing a twelve-hour shift on an ambulance but can’t manage to get their used La Croix can into the recycling bin or change their sheets or empty the cat box without being reminded at least sixteen times
Mi Madre: Part III, Me and Mi Madre
November 18th, 2022 | by Lisa Lim
I liked it. Confusing people everywhere we went
I’m Not Going to Pop: In Search of Better Pregnancy Metaphors
November 17th, 2022 | by Finn Schubert
What other shapes can we give a pregnancy narrative
Optimism and Anxiety Stew: Michelle Tea Talks About Knocking Myself Up
November 15th, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
I read Valencia, Michelle Tea’s account of 1990s queer life in San Francisco’s Mission district, when I was a newly
Mama Bird
November 10th, 2022 | by Maria Hanley
On the second Friday of the new school year, my seventh grader fastened his seatbelt, leaned over the giant backpack in his lap, and sobbed. “I don’t want to go to school.”
Graffiti Mom: MOMZ1
November 7th, 2022 | by Lisa Hanson
In his teen years before he moved out, I was often up in the night or would jerk awake with the image of him falling, unable to return to sleep again
Mi Madre: Part II, The Flower Bath
November 4th, 2022 | by Lisa Lim
Under a slight mustache she'd bleach blonde, she murmured prayers she called novenas.
DEAR ANGELA GARBES: On Sobbing
November 3rd, 2022 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
Crying seems the most natural of responses to these last years in pandemic and global disruption. So why hadn’t I done more of it
Here’s What I Know
November 1st, 2022 | by Megan Kennedy
I imagine them in their bed. Him pulling out a gun from underneath his pillow