Everything Else Can Wait: An Excerpt from FLOOD
June 11th, 2025 | by Christine Kalafus
Weren’t we supposed to be watching it
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All roads go back to mom
March 11th, 2025 | by Joan Sung
The subject line read, “Your AncestryDNA results have been updated.” I knew what the email contained before I even opened it
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
Claiming and Curating Infertility: The Editors of a New Anthology Talk Trauma, Healing, and Creating
October 3rd, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
There are so many privileges here. To be able to conceive in the comfort of one’s own home. To be able to conceive without a third party or a medical provider involved. To be able to conceive for free
My First Mothers Day as the Understudy—on Step-Parenting After Loss
May 10th, 2017 | by Betsy Graziani Fasbinder
I don’t know exactly what I was expecting on the morning of that first Mothers’ Day, but it didn’t happen.
ONE SEXY MUTHA: Madison Young Talks to Allegra Hirschman About Her ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SEX THROUGH PREGNANCY AND MOTHERHOOD
November 29th, 2016 | by Allegra Hirschman
Any self-respecting queer feminist in the Bay Area (and likely beyond) is familiar with Madison Young. I remember when her
KID GLOVES: Comics by Lucy Knisley
May 4th, 2016 | by Lucy Knisley
Congratulations, Lucy! In fact, double congrats: These comics are gestating into a whole MUTHA-freaking graphic memoir about motherhood. Kid Gloves the book will
BIRTHING PLANS: Comics by Emily Flake from MAMA TRIED
October 6th, 2015 | by Emily Flake
What? Want More?? Here’s the book: Mama Tried is not a parenting manual. I do not have any particularly sage advice for
LUCKY AMERICAN GIRL by KJ Dell’Antonia: From THE GOOD MOTHER MYTH
January 23rd, 2014 | by KJ Dell’Antonia
This glimpse from “Lucky American Girl,” the story of KJ Dell’Antonia’s daughter’s adoption from China, comes from The Good Mother