Passing Notes: On Grief-Craft with Michelle Suzanne Mirsky
December 10th, 2024 | by Jessica Phillips Lorenz
I don't set my clock by the coming sadness
Browsing the "Interview" Category
A Sort of Exorcism: Sunita Prasad On SLEEP TRAINING
October 8th, 2024 | by Kendra Sullivan
A new film about a baby that won't sleep and a parent who wants to push beyond the binary
Processing Trauma Through Personal Narrative: An Interview with Bridey Thelen-Heidel
October 1st, 2024 | by Jen Bryant
How do you grieve a person who’s alive? How do you truly let them go
Reclaiming the Essence of Who We Are: A Q&A with the Authors of Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels
August 15th, 2024 | by DW McKinney
Our sharp edges are seen as weapons, our soft parts are taken for the comfort.
Breastfeeding is Dark Magic: Shannon Robinson on Motherhood, Beastliness and THE ILL-FITTING SKIN
July 26th, 2024 | by Emily Robbins
Again and again, the women in my stories feel confined by external notions of what they should be
Will We Survive?
June 25th, 2024 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
I sat on a long subway ride from my borough of Brooklyn to Emily Raboteau’s home in the Bronx, crying
Waxing and Waning: An Essay Review of WOMEN ON THE MOON
June 21st, 2024 | by Sharline Chiang
I read these poems at the kitchen table after my daughter had gone to bed
Reimagining Family: A Q&A with Ruby Russell, Author of DOING IT ALL: THE SOCIAL POWER OF SINGLE MOTHERHOOD
May 14th, 2024 | by Jen Bryant
Part of the impetus for this book was that I wanted to read a history of single motherhood and I couldn’t find one – and that in itself surprised me
Losing Grip: Author Roxanna Asgarian on the Child Welfare System
May 6th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"The systems are clearly biased...but we also see in the Hart story just how many individual acts of bias contributed to these kids' deaths."
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?"