Processing Trauma Through Personal Narrative: An Interview with Bridey Thelen-Heidel
October 1st, 2024 | by Jen Bryant
How do you grieve a person who’s alive? How do you truly let them go
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Breastfeeding is Dark Magic: Shannon Robinson on Motherhood, Beastliness and THE ILL-FITTING SKIN
July 26th, 2024 | by Emily Robbins
Again and again, the women in my stories feel confined by external notions of what they should be
Will We Survive?
June 25th, 2024 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
I sat on a long subway ride from my borough of Brooklyn to Emily Raboteau’s home in the Bronx, crying
Reimagining Family: A Q&A with Ruby Russell, Author of DOING IT ALL: THE SOCIAL POWER OF SINGLE MOTHERHOOD
May 14th, 2024 | by Jen Bryant
Part of the impetus for this book was that I wanted to read a history of single motherhood and I couldn’t find one – and that in itself surprised me
“Eternally Grateful to Grow Up in NYC”: Jennifer Baum Looks Back on the Just City
April 10th, 2024 | by Frances Badalamenti
I was lucky in a lot of ways, though I didn’t know it at the time
“I Couldn’t Believe I Wasn’t Alone”: Minna Dubin Talks MOM RAGE
January 19th, 2024 | by Jacqui Morton
If one woman says she has been harmed, no one believes her.
“We Want to Do Things Differently”: A Conversation with Jen Lumanlan about PARENTING BEYOND POWER
December 8th, 2023 | by Sarah W. Jaffe
Can we raise the next generation to stop perpetuating toxic social forces that are at the root of so many of our world’s problems?
Tell Your “Truest Truth”: Carla Rachel Sameth Talks About ONE DAY ON THE GOLD LINE
October 13th, 2023 | by Manuela Gomez Rhine
"My hope is that this memoir offers some solace and solidarity"
Writing From the Center: A Conversation with Maggie Smith
July 27th, 2023 | by Jen Bryant
"I somewhat naively believed that if I applied enough thinking and feeling and time and energy towards somehow solving the problem of my marriage falling apart, that by the time I got done with the book, I would get it — I would understand what happened, and I would be able to set it down."
“Our hopes for healing must be bigger than ourselves”: An Interview With Poet Eugenia Leigh
April 13th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
Those mama bear metaphors are spot-on. I will do anything to protect my child. And now, I’m finally pissed off at all the people who did not protect me