New comic from Nichole LeFebvre at MUTHA - check it out at the link!
#comics #babydreaming
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New comic from Nichole LeFebvre at MUTHA - check it out at the link!
#comics #babydreaming
โThe tension between child and partner bruised me. In this invisible conflict, I chose my child every time.โ
New essay from Brittany Miles.
โI felt a pang of fear as we talked about our lives to comeโfear that we were all becoming too comfortable in this happiness, that our hopes had become oversized when we may soon experience loss.โ Excerpted from FAMISHED: ON FOOD, SEX, AND GROWING UP AS A GOOD GIRL by Anna Rollins ๐
โWe were unprepared for how insidious and central the need to gender our children became, an impulse that framed almost every interaction.โ
Mal Moser takes on the โWhat are you having?โ questions that pregnant people get in a new comic. ๐
www.muthamagazine.com/2026/03/gend...
โA daughter-in-law needs information about the family sheโs joining, where the skeletons are buried amid the bombshells.โ
Excerpt from Terese Svobodaโs memoir Hitler and My Mother-in-Law which follows Patricia Hartwell, the only female reporter to cover both Pacific and Atlantic theaters of WWII
โAbove the toilet, at roughly Joeyโs 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.โ
New from Cheryl Klein.
โBabaโs love was like hugging a rockโฆโ
New comic from Lisa Lim at the link! ๐
โThe poems are absolutely maximalist, so the rings stacked, chunky, multi-colored and adorning unapologetically feel as if theyโre in conversation with the long lines and expansive language of this bookโs poems.โ
Tyler Mills + Carey Salerno talk poetry ๐
www.muthamagazine.com/2026/02/how-...
โYou are the uterus clipped from its stem, leaving behind the network of rootโฆโ
From โOde to Darnel (Ode to the Crocus)โ by Carey Salerno #poetry
www.muthamagazine.com/2026/02/ode-...
โReproductive justice is a bridge in a way that choice never could be.โ
New at MUTHA: Jen Bryant in conversation with authors, activists, and thought leaders Marlene Gerber Fried and Loretta J. Ross.
#reproductivejustice #interviews #books
โI told my boys about the severity of weapons at school. How children and teachers have gotten hurt. That even though itโs 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.โ - Samantha K. Smith
โThis is not a test I should be taking. This is not a test I am prepared to pass. But the bittersweet acknowledgement of nothing hurts every single time.โ
Ariel Neitch on trying to conceive.
โCommunity is what fascism cannot overcome.โ
New from Amy Martin. ๐
โIt wasnโt until she started hiding in closets to escape the voices in her head that we learned schizophrenia also explained her lack of organizational skills. There was no guidebook on how to fix it, and I didnโt have a clue.โ - Brittany Miles
#schizophrenia #executivedysfunction #essays
Resources for resisting ICE in your community and an #ICEoutcomics call to action here: open.substack.com/pub/aubreyhi...
โThe hospitalโs rules were clear. Olive wasnโt allowed to sleep with me. She was too littleโa fall risk. Her crib sat just out of reach.โ - Mikaela Perron-Sampson
#pediatriccancer
โMy first thought: My god. They killed somebody, again.
My second: If theyโre out here shooting white people in cold blood, what chance do the rest of us have?โ
New from Sharline Chiang.
#heatedrivalry #ice #essays
โMy son, a true artiste, hid his vegetables in the back of the bookcase in the dining room, which I didnโt find out about until we moved. What were all these tiny orange things behind the encyclopedias?โ From Jennifer Haydenโs new graphic memoir, WHERE THEREโS SMOKE, THEREโS DINNER - excerpt at ๐
โA cousin, swollen with her third child, stood still while the women circled her like a secret.โ New from Maria Olujic ๐
โbut the vibrating fleshiness
of real-life babies
did not yield to the stopwatchโฆโ
From โRodent Motherโ by Shelley Smithson - read it here โฌ๏ธ
โI canโt sleep. I canโt stop thinking about ICE and how they killed Renee Good.โ
New from longtime MUTHA contributor Lisa Lim: reflections on ICE, state-sanctioned violence, and the murder of Renee Good.
โNew parents love to talk about strollers and sleep sacks. But thereโs no book called What to Expect When Youโre Expecting an Eighteen-Year-Old. No budgeting app for senior-year expenses. No โEnd of Childhoodโ ornament.โ
New from Zora Foote. ๐
www.muthamagazine.com/2026/01/the-...
"My fingers are surprised at a softness like lips puffed around the horizontal line of scar. My skin is dry so I head into the light & rub coconut oil on all I can reach. The oil is no small miracle of ordinary care."
โWhere in the world did I get the idea that you have to either accept yourself or change? There are worlds beyond those two possibilities, & between them my skin speaks for itself.โ - Abby Vines-Lopez
#essays #bodies #tattoos
โIf we could go back in time, before the dark winter of her decline, to the hopeful promise of the solstice.โ
Michelle Fitzgerald on seasons, solace, and the sandwich generation.
โYouโre just 14 years old in the world and then all at once youโre 18 and super involved with bills and stress and the undoing of others all around you, like a river that wets your feet over and over. Insurance and FICA and fucking credit card bills and how do I change a tire?โ - Amy Turn Sharp ๐
This is so, so good. ๐
I got to interview Kate Rope about her new book, "Strong As A Girl."
Now I can add "author interviewer" to my writing accomplishments.
