“I kept repeating to myself that I wasn’t a mother but a budding classical singer. A mother never stops thinking about and being concerned about the child. Never feels unencumbered again. Motherhood wasn’t in my plans. Motherhood wasn’t who I was.”
New from Noelle Sterne. #adoption #birthmother
Thanks to MUTHA magazine editor for mentioning A PLACE FOR WHAT WE LOSE in this roundup! My memoir is forthcoming soon from
@uwapress.uw.edu 4/28/26.
“Rest isn’t solely something to do, it’s something that relies on dismantling our systems of oppression.”
New from Tatiana Johnson-Boria.
#miscarriage #rest #Blackmotherhood
“I’d never been to this region, also known as Perigord, famous for its prehistoric heritage and medieval villages. But instead of thinking about sightseeing and relaxation, I was asking the clerk about lice.”
New from Mathilde Piton. #familyvacation
“What am I doing for myself? What am I doing for my kid(s)? When is it time to give up on my own achievements and pass the torch?”
New from MUTHA editor Cheryl Klein 🔗
#essays
“Anger left me long ago, but understanding’s also vacant. Armed guards still stalk the danger,
the hurt still holds out hope.”
New poetry by Alise M. Edgcomb at the 🔗
#poem
“The stories I once heard about birth suggested something protected and warm — a place where pain had meaning and someone was always there to steady you. But when it came time for my own body to open, I learned that some thresholds are crossed alone.”
New from Hana Melroy. #essays
“The children do as children do. Form a little group. Make a new friend. Leave an old friend behind.”
New from Parisa Karami.
#comics #SizdahBedar
“Boy protagonist in search of home. Serial killers - they are just not fun anymore. All of the news.”
New from Rebecca Katz.
“I dreamt of telling my own kids about the powerful legend that we are all part of, and the role it played in how they came to be.“
Michelle Valenti on rituals, fertility, and trying to conceive.
Super proud to have appeared in two of these gems.
We’re in good company! 💕 Thank you, Simon and Schuster!
“Those CPR classes didn’t cover this. Pushing two fingers into the rubbery back of a glass-eyed doll did not prepare me to stand in this doorway, helpless.”
New from Stefanie DeMaria Febus.
“How long does it take a mom to put a rotting apple core in the compost?” New zine from Lindsey Hernandez.
“All of these stories are related scaffolds of a system that normalizes injustice and harm while asking us to take deep breaths and not scream too loudly.” On talking to kids about hard stuff, by Chrystal Sunshine.
“We can’t know the future. We can only work on building the one we want. I want a future filled with the laughter and resilience of children.“
Joon Ae Haworth-Kaufka on war, parenting, fear, and hope.
#essays #war #gaza
New comic from Nichole LeFebvre at MUTHA - check it out at the link!
#comics #babydreaming
“The tension between child and partner bruised me. In this invisible conflict, I chose my child every time.”
New essay from Brittany Miles.
“I felt a pang of fear as we talked about our lives to come—fear that we were all becoming too comfortable in this happiness, that our hopes had become oversized when we may soon experience loss.” Excerpted from FAMISHED: ON FOOD, SEX, AND GROWING UP AS A GOOD GIRL by Anna Rollins 🔗
“We were unprepared for how insidious and central the need to gender our children became, an impulse that framed almost every interaction.”
Mal Moser takes on the “What are you having?” questions that pregnant people get in a new comic. 🔗
www.muthamagazine.com/2026/03/gend...
“A daughter-in-law needs information about the family she’s joining, where the skeletons are buried amid the bombshells.”
Excerpt from Terese Svoboda’s memoir Hitler and My Mother-in-Law which follows Patricia Hartwell, the only female reporter to cover both Pacific and Atlantic theaters of WWII
“Above the toilet, at roughly Joey’s eye level, was a small square metal door that had swung open, revealing a dark cave of pipes and wires. Exactly the kind of place a monster would want to hang out.”
New from Cheryl Klein.
“The poems are absolutely maximalist, so the rings stacked, chunky, multi-colored and adorning unapologetically feel as if they’re in conversation with the long lines and expansive language of this book’s poems.”
Tyler Mills + Carey Salerno talk poetry 🔗
www.muthamagazine.com/2026/02/how-...
“You are the uterus clipped from its stem, leaving behind the network of root…”
From “Ode to Darnel (Ode to the Crocus)” by Carey Salerno #poetry
www.muthamagazine.com/2026/02/ode-...
“Reproductive justice is a bridge in a way that choice never could be.”
New at MUTHA: Jen Bryant in conversation with authors, activists, and thought leaders Marlene Gerber Fried and Loretta J. Ross.
#reproductivejustice #interviews #books
“I told my boys about the severity of weapons at school. How children and teachers have gotten hurt. That even though it’s a toy, it inspires real and unnecessary fear in others. When I noticed my second son checking out and growing bored with my spiel, I resorted to more truth.” - Samantha K. Smith
