You Must Give Her Freedom: An Excerpt from ON GOLD HILL
April 29th, 2024 | by Jaclyn Moyer
I watched my grandmother cup my daughter’s head in her palm, then said, “Speak to her in your language—she’s learning. Speak in Punjabi.”
Monthly Archives: April 2024
Mother Doll: Excerpt from the Novel by Katya Apekina
April 25th, 2024 | by Katya Apekina
“I guess it was appropriate that my marriage ended after visiting a clubhouse for magicians. The stability of marriage was an illusion.”
Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends: Novelist Katya Apekina on Russia, Motherhood, and Mother Doll
April 25th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"Russian immigrants find the American friendliness to be off-putting and insane. Why do people smile so much?"
All of the Hidden Almosts
April 22nd, 2024 | by Megan Mizanty
Once you cross the line to the other side of delivery, people share more about their own birth experiences
Embracing the Shadow: Healing My Teenage Self Through Motherhood
April 17th, 2024 | by Liza Ruggiero
I wonder, is motherhood a portal to adolescence? An opportunity to revisit this vulnerable and formative and earth-shattering period of life
‘School Moms’ Fight Back Against Book Bans: Laura Pappano Talks to Mom-Activist Kate Nazemi
April 12th, 2024 | by Laura Pappano
Schools are red alert zones. Moms are fighting back.
“Eternally Grateful to Grow Up in NYC”: Jennifer Baum Looks Back on the Just City
April 10th, 2024 | by Frances Badalamenti
I was lucky in a lot of ways, though I didn’t know it at the time
Connecting the Dots of our Struggles: Widening Our Aperture from Individual to Collective Liberation
April 4th, 2024 | by Sara Sadek
If we feel our mom rage boiling at our own seemingly impossible setups, but we are not raging with the mothers in Gaza for what they have been forced to endure the last 150 + days, we have to widen our apertures and connect the dots of our struggles
Spice Up Your Life
April 2nd, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Inhabiting a running first-person narrative about how much you suck is not, as it turns out, a particularly productive way to live.