TO BLACK PARENTS VISITING EARTH: Letter #5 from Janet Stickmon, on DOLLS
October 25th, 2016 | by Janet Stickmon
I was sorting through Baby Girl’s old dolls and came across Taraji and Wangari. Taraji is a brown-skinned baby doll
“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.
ORANGE by Rivka Galchen, from LITTLE LABORS
October 24th, 2016 | by Rivka Galchen
When the puma was about four months old, exiting the feline state and just beginning to move toward the sloth
WHAT TO SAY–AND WHAT NOT TO SAY–AFTER SOMEONE HAS A MISCARRIAGE by Jessica Zucker, Illustrated by Ryan Alexander-Tanner
October 21st, 2016 | by Jessica Zucker
It is pregnancy loss and infant loss awareness month. This comic was originally published at Bitch. Be sure to check out
How Becoming a Parent Turned Me Into an Accidental Activist by ETHAN SOMERMAN
October 21st, 2016 | by Ethan Somerman
Having a baby turns some into baby-wearing, goo-goo saying, sleep training, playgroup setting, parent philosophizing, only what’s best for the
Caroll Sun Yang’s UNPLANNED GUAVA CEREMONY
October 20th, 2016 | by Caroll Sun Yang
The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried. —Joan Didion We sit cross-legged on the
HOME OF THE FREE: Confessions from My Bubbe’s America by AMY KURZWEIL
October 19th, 2016 | by Amy Kurzweil
Amy Kurzweil’s memoir about her grandmother released this month, just in time for the election. Flying Couch “exposes the complicated
SLIGO: Bernadette Murphy is a MUTHA on Wheels
October 13th, 2016 | by Bernadette Murphy
I need you, Mom. Where ARE you? A series of texts scrolls across my phone as I return to cell-phone
MUTHA UP! JOIN US & Be Amazed by MUTHAs at the San Francisco Litquake Lit Crawl
October 13th, 2016 | by Mutha Magazine
MUTHA Magazine is at Litquake in San Francisco this weekend! Saturday, October 15th — Phase 1 (6-7pm) at PublicWorks (161 Erie
Ieishah Clelland on THE BEAUTY GAP
October 11th, 2016 | by Ieishah Clelland
“Mama, I want one of this!” My daughter, Free, spoke around the bubbles and suds tumbling out of her mouth.