Early and Often: An Adoption Story in Circles
April 24th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
My son’s favorite book right now is Babies Come from Airports, a sweet, rhyming story narrated by an adopted child
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Raising Babies in End of Days
March 9th, 2018 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
When I was in high school, I had an earlier curfew than all my friends. When I got back to
BODY FULL OF STARS: An Interview with Molly Caro May on Motherhood, Rage, and Healing
January 24th, 2018 | by Elizabeth Beauvais
I wish Molly Caro May’s second memoir Body Full of Stars had been written ten years ago when, after the
Break it Down: Gene Luen Yang on READING WITHOUT WALLS
November 20th, 2017 | by Meg Lemke
I often describe MUTHA as a site for folks who parent (and like to read) outside the mainstream—a place where
Too Queer, Too Poor, Too Young: An Excerpt From Nina Packebush’s GIRLS LIKE ME
November 14th, 2017 | by Nina Packebush
If teenage mothers are underrepresented in literature, queer teen parents are almost entirely absent. Yet, as a recent study by
“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,
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
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
EAVESDROP! Psycho Bitches—Orli Auslander, Julie Holland and Elisa Albert in Conversation
September 14th, 2017 | by Elisa Albert
In celebration of Orli Auslander’s outstanding new book I Feel Bad earlier this year, her friends, co-conspirators, and fans Elisa
A Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Camille Dungy Talks to Desiree Cooper About “Mothering While Art-ing”
June 19th, 2017 | by Desiree Cooper
It’s about time that someone wrote a guidebook to “mothering while arting.” I’ve been calling myself a writer for most