BINDERCON RESPONDS to Jade Sanchez-Ventura’s essay, “My Baby Comes With Me”
February 8th, 2016 | by Lux Alptraum
MUTHA published an essay by Jade Sanchez-Ventura that talked about how she felt when she was told her baby wasn’t welcome
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MY BABY COMES WITH ME: Jade Sanchez-Ventura on Sharing “the Burden”
February 8th, 2016 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
Every Tuesday and Thursday I get to the school where I work by 9:45, though often I get to the
WAKING THE DEAD: How Parenting Brought KRIS WILLCOX’s Writing Back to Life
November 20th, 2015 | by Kris Willcox
If you’d asked me at the age of thirty, when I finished repaying my student loans, what might bring me
All of A Sudden We Were Mothers: KRISTEN STONE on Friendship and Change
November 11th, 2015 | by Ezra Stone
Last night I talked to an old friend. She has four stepchildren now; I have a six-year-old son. These children,
HOW I STOPPED WORRYING ABOUT WOOLF AND WROTE MY TITS OFF: Jennifer Hayden on Art and MUTHA-hood
October 19th, 2015 | by Jennifer Hayden
In my roaring twenties, I was determined to be a great writer. Short stories, fiction, booze, late nights, angst. I
EAVESDROP! An Interview with Heidi Julavits, Emily Gould, and Elisa Albert on a Park Bench in Brooklyn
October 7th, 2015 | by Elisa Albert
It was a perfect day right before the fall equinox. Emily Gould had brought us together as part of a panel
EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED: An Interview with Jillian Lauren
September 1st, 2015 | by Meg Lemke
I first heard Jillian Lauren on The Moth podcast, with a harrowing story about adopting her son, Tariku. She is great up at
THE CAR NAP: An Essay in Selfies by ELISA ALBERT
February 12th, 2015 | by Elisa Albert
There’s a strange invisibility and tedium to the rites and rhythms of early motherhood. Via the car nap selfies I
EXCAVATION: An Interview with Wendy Ortiz by Sarah Maria Medina
January 23rd, 2015 | by Sarah Maria Medina
Wendy C. Ortiz’s memoir, Excavation, is a poetic yet stark retelling of one teenage girl’s journey into womanhood. Excavation delves
Anya Ulinich’s THE INTELLECTUAL AND THE DARLING: A PLAY FOR CHILDREN ABOUT GENDER ROLES, excerpted from LENA FINKLE’S MAGIC BARREL
November 4th, 2014 | by Anya Ulinich
Anya Ulinich’s Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel is an autobiographical graphic novel. Lena shares a striking physical similarity to her author, and