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Comics

What is Kindness?

August 6th, 2019 | by Kaitlin Walker & Kerry Vineberg

“I tried setting boundaries. When they weren’t respected, I ended some relationships.&#


Baby Dreaming

AREN AIZURA on CHESTFEEDING

January 30th, 2019 | by Aren Aizura

Chestfeeding. Autocorrect doesn’t know this word and changes it to chested. Chestfeeding was what my daughter Kit and I did


Body

The Choice

October 25th, 2018 | by Desiree Cooper

“It was over. We looked up. Many smiled compassionately.”   “The Choice” is a powerful, thought-provoking look at a procedure


Adoption Stories

HOW TO MAKE A FAMILY

October 15th, 2018 | by Lakshmi Iyer

You want a baby. Babies. Your husband agrees, albeit begrudgingly. But month after month your hopes surge and fall. You


Comics

Water I’ve Loved: Cape Cod

March 2nd, 2018 | by Pam Wye

This is Pam Wye’s third installment in her “Water I’ve Loved” graphic memoir, which she is serializing at MUTHA Magazine.



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  • #comics #parenting #cheapthrills “I was two years past my last period and in early menopause, thirty-four years old and recently divorced. Learning I was unable to conceive had thrown me into a state of despair. Now, with the world split open, alone in a pitch-black room with bloody feet, I knew I needed to act.” “My parents adopted me. At three months old, they chose and adopted a baby girl called April and named her Alexandria. He and Mama named me after him, his middle name being Alexander. I don’t remember the exact moment they told me they adopted me, but I must’ve been little because it feels as though I’ve always known.” #comics #loss #mothersanddaughters “Queers have the privilege of putting ourselves together; we do not come prepackaged. My gender does not rely on the external narratives we tell about men. If my masculinity is a form of political protest, so is my femininity. Those dykes who took me under their butch wings at seventeen taught me that softness and strength are not in opposition. It’s a lesson that has served me well in fatherhood.” #birth #dads #grief #fathersday #comics #art #poetry #newborns #sleep “Communicating desire and boundaries during a sexual encounter is a varsity-level skill. Today’s sex educators advocate for clear, enthusiastic, continuous consent, and I think I believe in that ideal. But this concept wasn’t imaginable when I was in high school. I was mute for so much of my early sex life, I feel unqualified to teach my girls how to navigate theirs.”

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