Mutha Magazine

TO BLACK PARENTS VISITING EARTH: Letter #1 by Janet Stickmon

July 8th, 2016 | by Janet Stickmon

To Black Parents Visiting Earth, It has taken me several months to write to you … and I don’t even

July 7th, 2016 | by Sarah Maria Medina

Sound like gunfire pops through night—the cathedral letting off fireworks. When I wake, I pull clumps of mud from my

July 1st, 2016 | by Glynnis Fawkes

Glynnis Fawkes draws comics about her children and their daily exploits, which include keeping her up at all hours, imaginary

June 29th, 2016 | by Jessica Shortall

You know what? Adulting is hard enough as it is—add parenting to that, and it’s just exhausting. Then, sure, why

June 22nd, 2016 | by Anna Doogan

My son and I watch the animated tiger onscreen, the jagged black scar slashed across his face, the dramatic battle

June 20th, 2016 | by Juniper Fitzgerald

I know you’ve seen her—shoulders hunched, toes pigeoned, and head hung low, she is the most docile and unassuming kind

June 9th, 2016 | by Jenna Fox

My grandma was wrinkled elbows, open-faced cheese sandwiches on plastic plates from the ’70s, and white orthopedic New Balance sneakers.

June 8th, 2016 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura

“Whether or not you have or want children, please don’t ignore the reality it is still permissible, in 21st-century America,

June 2nd, 2016 | by Frances Badalamenti

The first time that I was offered weed was in eighth grade. It was pre-braces and post onset of menses.

May 31st, 2016 | by Wendy Kennar

Strength is easy for my second-grader son to define. He can stand in front of his bedroom mirror, flex his