HOUSE OF LIT — It’s MUTHA at Governors with Pen Parentis
July 1st, 2017 | by Mutha Magazine
As part of the Empire State Center for the Book Festival, Pen Parentis is hosting a House of Lit Party
Browsing the "Families" Category
Mothers of the Struggle
June 29th, 2017 | by Amy Abugo Ongiri
Many people know the name Emmett Till, the young boy from Chicago whose violent death one Mississippi summer made him
THE VISIT
June 20th, 2017 | by Sosha Lewis
Plumes of black smoke stuttered up from the muffler of my grandmother’s abused Buick Riveria as she rocketed down the
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
Advice from Teen MUTHAs!
May 31st, 2017 | by Ezra Stone
This spring, I’ve gotten to work as a counselor and support group facilitator with some teen moms at a local
Bath Time Operating Instructions: 4 months to 74 years
May 15th, 2017 | by Maria Massei-Rosato
“You need to watch Anthony.” I yell downstairs as Tony arrives home from work. “I’m going to my mom’s house
My First Mothers Day as the Understudy—on Step-Parenting After Loss
May 10th, 2017 | by Betsy Graziani Fasbinder
I don’t know exactly what I was expecting on the morning of that first Mothers’ Day, but it didn’t happen.
That Enchanted Place: on Losing How to Do Nothing and Finding It Again
April 25th, 2017 | by Pooja Makhijani
When I was six-years-old, four six-inch tall stuffed toys arrived with a bubbling hot, deep-dish pie from the new Pizza
“Welcome Them”—An Interview with Alisa Bowman on RAISING THE TRANSGENDER CHILD
April 20th, 2017 | by Rachel Aimee
As Janet Mock recently explained in the New York Times, “Young People Get Trans Rights. It’s Adults Who Don’t.” At
I’D PREFER NOT TO—on Debating the Choice to Stay Childless
April 12th, 2017 | by Sarah Mirk
I’ll be honest: I don’t really like babies. I don’t have that “mothering instinct.” The smaller, the scarier, I say.