Swagger Like Us
July 5th, 2023 | by Sumitra Mattai
Our first child was two years old when my husband told me I’d “lost my swagger.”
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Report From a Neurodiverse Universe
June 14th, 2023 | by Maryrose Smyth
Val full-body lunges at Max! Contact! Max’s full face folds like bread dough
The Nighttime Arms Race
April 18th, 2023 | by Teresa Douglas
Tonight, I’ll gladly exchange sleep for sex with my husband
On Reaching: A Conversation with Majka Burhardt
March 7th, 2023 | by Brianna Avenia-Tapper
"It is the ability to be okay with the change and the movement. To ask, 'What are the tools that I have before me right now and what’s the choice that I need to make right now?' That’s climbing in a nutshell, and that’s mothering in a nutshell."
A Portrait of the Mother as Love on Fire: Death, Forgiveness, and Abolition (part II)
September 21st, 2021 | by Karissa Welch T.
I used to think that all mothers were as good as they were able to be, even if I didn't agree with some mothers. But there are bad mothers
Bad Juju
September 1st, 2021 | by Denise Massar
How could I have been so stupid? So smug? You couldn’t let the universe know when you were flying high
Fucking Colic. And Fuck Colic.
July 20th, 2021 | by Holly Jean
At first, I felt like it was my responsibility to bring Jack to peace because I was the creator, the mother, the vessel. I was the food supply
I Loved How Much My Husband Loved Our Children, And I Was Jealous of Them
June 17th, 2021 | by Diana Kupershmit
“A sick child can make or break a family,” I remembered hearing. Was that my fear? Did I worry that Tolya would leave me, leave the kids?
In My Defense
November 19th, 2019 | by Odeta Xheka
The creator in me keeps a purposefully irregular schedule, craves solitude, must fade out of reach in order to work. The mother, the daughter, the wife doesn’t have a minute to herself
When the Doctor Has Bad News (Again)
November 11th, 2019 | by Erin Pushman
In the biopsy waiting game, each day is an eternity. You recite the possibilities like prayers—dense bone, bone infection, tumor recurrence