Just a House
August 22nd, 2023 | by Risa Polansky Shiman
When we found out we were losing our baby, I was six months pregnant, and my husband and I were days away from closing on our first house
Browsing the "pandemic" Tag
Mostly Functioning
November 21st, 2022 | by Robin Silbergleid
somehow I have raised a semi-adult person who is EMS-certified and capable of doing a twelve-hour shift on an ambulance but can’t manage to get their used La Croix can into the recycling bin or change their sheets or empty the cat box without being reminded at least sixteen times
Here’s What I Know
November 1st, 2022 | by Megan Kennedy
I imagine them in their bed. Him pulling out a gun from underneath his pillow
Privacy, Erasure, and Consent as a Writing Mother
October 25th, 2022 | by Christy Tending
What started out as a deliberate but straightforward choice for our child has had unexpected consequences
This Was Not The Plan: On Birth, Grief, and a Pandemic Delivery
June 17th, 2022 | by Molly O. Kemper
It’s disheartening to hear someone sigh so morosely every time she looks up your vagina
Postpartum depression during a pandemic
February 15th, 2022 | by Amy Mattes
The house is living and breathing windows lifting curtains let old air out. An air between seasons. Her body is living and breathing open organs stretching in the
Spirit of the Sun: Birthing Again at Home
January 31st, 2022 | by Laura Eliasieh
Pregnancy with my second daughter inspired me to deepen my understanding of our family’s ancestry. Connecting with the soulful past,
Home
January 20th, 2022 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura and Ro Agents-Juska
Though I’ve lived, mostly happily, in the same apartment for seventeen years, I spent this past September and most of
Bloody Show
January 4th, 2022 | by Ariel McCleese
I said I missed my mom, and the nurse started crying and told me to think of the women upstairs, the ones who have COVID and are doing this alone.
History Lesson
October 12th, 2021 | by Margaret Elysia Garcia
(The president said Lat-tee-nex aren’t getting vaccinated because we fear documentation and deportation. Demoralization. Department chair: don’t they realize they’re