Motherhood

What Motherhood in Kenya Reveals About the Nature of Family

Abigail Leonard Explores the Intersections of Traditional and Modern Parenting in East Africa

 
By Abigail Leonard  April 10, 2025
Motherhood

A Literary Dictionary of the Mothers Who Leave

By L. Sasha Gora  April 8, 2025
Motherhood

The Cords That Bind: On the Elusiveness of Solitude in Motherhood

By Nicole Graev Lipson  March 5, 2025
Motherhood

Beyond Postpartum Body Horror: How Nightbitch Finds a Secret Third Destiny For New Mothers

By Janet Manley  December 6, 2024
Motherhood

Books Have No Gender: On Being a Small Town Librarian While Raising a Trans Child

By Abi Maxwell  September 17, 2024
Motherhood

The Joys and Fears of Trans Motherhood

By Gabrielle Bellot  August 19, 2024
Motherhood

Necessary Yet Invisible: On the Unpaid Labor of Motherhood and Writing

By Claire Kilroy  June 6, 2024
Motherhood

Invisible Women: On the Victorian Custom of Cutting Mothers Out of Portraits

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  May 10, 2024
Motherhood

A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life

By Heidi Reimer  May 6, 2024
Motherhood

A Subterranean Kinship: Rachel Lyon and Leslie Jamison on Writing Separate But Related Books

By Leslie Jamison  March 6, 2024
Motherhood

Motherhood Is Antarctica: On the Underexplored Landscape of Postpartum Loneliness

By Marie Doezema  January 8, 2024
Motherhood

Shadow Face: Jessica Moore on the Dissolving Margins of Motherhood

By Jessica Moore  December 7, 2023
Motherhood

Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

By Molly Lynch  September 25, 2023
Motherhood

We Need a Motherf*cking Break: On Mom Rage and the Fantasy of Joint Custody

By Minna Dubin  September 21, 2023
Motherhood

What to Read When You’re Expecting: 7 Radical Perspectives on Motherhood

By Jessica Hendry Nelson  August 29, 2023
Motherhood

“Writing happens when it happens”: On Balancing Motherhood and Being an Author

By Prudence Peiffer  August 7, 2023
Motherhood

Difficult Choices, Then and Now: A Reading List of Motherhood and Adoption

By Julia Franks  June 8, 2023
Motherhood

No Alternatives: On (Not) Choosing to Be a Mother in Rural America

By Monica Potts  May 31, 2023
Motherhood

On QAnon and the Toxic Longing to Be Part of Something As a Mom

By Sara Petersen  April 28, 2023
Motherhood

Claire Dederer on Doris Lessing and the Divided Mother

By Claire Dederer  April 25, 2023
Motherhood

Maggie Smith on the Anxious, Silent First Year of Motherhood

By Maggie Smith  April 12, 2023
Motherhood

Szilvia Molnar on Knowing When to Kill Your Darlings

By Szilvia Molnar  March 21, 2023
Motherhood

On Saving Time as a New Mother: Rachel Ranie Taube Reads Jenny Odell

By Rachel Ranie Taube  March 7, 2023
Motherhood

Wanting a Child Makes No Goddamn Sense: Tiphanie Yanique on the Hope and Grief of Pregnancy and Childbirth

By Tiphanie Yanique  February 2, 2023
Motherhood

What Would It Mean to Really Make Space for Mother-Artists?

By Janet Manley  January 13, 2023
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