ASK AYA: Fierce, Feminist Parenting Advice–On THE SEX TALK
January 16th, 2018 | by Aya de Leon
This week, we’re starting a new advice column—from the one/only AYA DE LEON! HEY AYA: What did you do when
Browsing the "Language" Category
HIDDEN MOTHER: An Excerpt
January 10th, 2018 | by Laura Larson
In 19th century portrait studios, photographers employed a number of different strategies to stabilize the body during the long exposures
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
America and Eternity: A Letter to My Three Year Old
October 9th, 2017 | by Juniper Fitzgerald
Redacted], My dearest child. When my belly swelled with your imminence, I collected every queer children’s book I could get
Words With Friends
September 7th, 2017 | by Cheryl Klein
We are driving up the coast. The sun is setting, or what my son—ensconced in his rear-facing car seat behind
Every Last Drop
July 21st, 2017 | by Nancy Méndez-Booth
Little woman. Big choice. Mami stands in front of the menu board at Torico Ice Cream Parlor. Fifty-four flavors of
NAME IT—On the Impossible Balance in SLING CITY
February 28th, 2017 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
My son has found words. Every day there are new ones. Hat, which is hair (and hat and socks). How,
IS IT TOO LATE TO NOT APOLOGIZE? Britni de la Cretaz Looks in the Mirror of Her Daughter’s Words
January 3rd, 2017 | by Britni de la Cretaz
“Oh! That’s my fault.” My two-and-a-half year old daughter says, as she has just knocked over a bucket of her
A WOMB OF THEIR OWN: Filmmaker Cyn Lubow Talks with Charlie King-Miller
October 26th, 2016 | by Charlie King-MIller
As a genderqueer butch, I found pregnancy to be very isolating. My doctors misgendered me, my clothing stopped looking right
“What Drug is a Baby?” & An Interview with Rivka Galchen on LITTLE LABORS
October 24th, 2016 | by Meg Lemke
Rivka Galchen’s Little Labors is modeled on an 11th-century Japanese “pillow book.” It’s the new-mother-wondering-wtf-just-happened version of a pillow book.