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.”
Browsing the "Language" Tag
Does personal always have to mean private? On the language we lack around infertility
July 25th, 2023 | by Sammi LaBue Hatch
My first weekend out after the reign of the Delta variant, a rainy March night in 2021, I stood at
Semantic Shift: Comics
October 21st, 2022 | by Tyler Cohen
Who might I have been, if I had this language?
Not My Newborn’s Mother
July 26th, 2022 | by Allison Grace Myers
What right did I have to hold this wondrous, just-born human in my arms?
I Worry About My Young Son’s Memories: What is growing up in Covid times doing to our kids’ development?
February 16th, 2022 | by Rebecca Rolland
As a speech pathologist, I know how important these years are in forming an understanding of what the world is, and how it works
Call It By Its Name
March 10th, 2020 | by Kira Garcia
Whether my son turns out to be a boy, a girl, or neither, I want him to know that our bodies belong to us and that language is important. This applies to names, pronouns, and of course, body parts.
Words With Friends
September 7th, 2017 | by Cheryl Klein
We are driving up the coast. The sun is setting, or what my son—ensconced in his rear-facing car seat behind
NAME IT—On the Impossible Balance in SLING CITY
February 28th, 2017 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
My son has found words. Every day there are new ones. Hat, which is hair (and hat and socks). How,
IS IT TOO LATE TO NOT APOLOGIZE? Britni de la Cretaz Looks in the Mirror of Her Daughter’s Words
January 3rd, 2017 | by Britni de la Cretaz
“Oh! That’s my fault.” My two-and-a-half year old daughter says, as she has just knocked over a bucket of her
I AM A FRAUD: Christa Osborne is a MUTHA
February 17th, 2015 | by Christa Osborne
I am a fraud. I have purposefully lied to my five-year old on numerous occasions, and have upheld those lies
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