generations Archives - Mutha Magazine

You Must Give Her Freedom: An Excerpt from ON GOLD HILL

April 29th, 2024 | by Jaclyn Moyer

I watched my grandmother cup my daughter’s head in her palm, then said, “Speak to her in your language—she’s learning. Speak in Punjabi.”

My Mother’s Poetry

November 14th, 2023 | by Rebecca Brenner

Twenty years ago, when my mother died from substance abuse disorder at the beginning of the opioid crisis, I inherited a Washington Apples box full of her unpublished poetry, journals, and short stories

Teen MUTHAs Rise Up

“I Knew That I Could Do This”: Excerpt from THREE QUEERDOS AND A BABY

December 21st, 2022 | by Nina Packebush

Having a baby at seventeen ruins any chance you can ever be anyone’s idea of an ideal mom

Loss

The Way Loretta Says Mommy

October 24th, 2022 | by S. Lynn Alderman

There’s no room for falling apart in the mountains, in the mines. In the company houses wondering if the doctor will make it in time. Collecting water from a spring on another holler because what runs to the house is poisoned by the same company that issues the pay that sustains you.