Be Brave: Facing My Child’s Surgery
October 14th, 2019 | by Erin Pushman
Surgery means Lucille might soon start to look the way she would have looked if a central giant cell granuloma had not happened to her face.
Browsing the "Body" Category
Kristine Jepsen’s VIEW FROM THE BACKSEAT
June 11th, 2019 | by Kristine Jepsen
I get all the kisses, right? Because if I had lots of brothers and sisters, I wouldn’t get all the
On Weaning
May 27th, 2019 | by Kira Garcia
My son arrived via c-section after an astonishingly easy DIY queer conception and a much more complicated birth. He emerged
The Quiet on the Other Side
April 23rd, 2019 | by Hazel Kight Witham
The Quiet on the Other Side By Hazel Kight Witham The quiet stops when they call my name from the
Immaculate Assumptions: Food Babies I Have Carried
February 19th, 2019 | by Cheryl Klein
There was a guy I flirted with in English class, and I stayed awake at nights worrying maybe I was a dyke, but that was the extent of my sex life. If it was possible to be negative-pregnant, that was me
POEMS by KUO ZHANG
February 11th, 2019 | by Kuo Zhang
Pregnancy I have known the secret joy of pregnancy, clip-clop of heartbeats in duet, high-fives across the belly, a mini-stove
AREN AIZURA on CHESTFEEDING
January 30th, 2019 | by Aren Aizura
Chestfeeding. Autocorrect doesn’t know this word and changes it to chested. Chestfeeding was what my daughter Kit and I did
Scars: A Photo Essay
November 6th, 2018 | by Lyndsay Knowles
“What is that?” my son asks, his finger reaching out, pointing to a small stretch of skin above my belly
Know What We Lose When the Clinics Close
November 5th, 2018 | by Dena Moes
I sat charting on my computer and clicked the button to send a patient’s prescription over to her pharmacy. Then
“Parents use what they have to do what they need”: Dr. Kara Ayers of the Disabled Parenting Project on Creativity and Community
November 1st, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
Ability in its essential form is not a construct: We all have the ability to do some things and lack