Tag: motherhood

In an excerpt from her new book on fertility, feminism, and queer family-building, Jennifer Berney explores the possibilities of sperm banks.

Alexandra Tanner spent this weird year following Mormon mommy bloggers on Instagram.

“Impending parenthood makes you reconsider the context of your own upbringing, and puts the work your parents did into a new light.”

Three asylum seekers navigate coronavirus and climate change at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Last week, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, was released on Disney+. Jeanna Kadlec takes this opportunity to explore how Disney has dealt with their most powerful of witches.

“Having children has simultaneously fried my brain and made it sharper and more focused.”

When she loses a pregnancy, Anna Lea Hand searches in vain for vital advice and information.

As a nursing mother newly exposed to the harsh realities of milk production, Liza Monroy reconsiders the dairy cow, and questions the meaning of compassion.

“Though the embryo was only seven weeks old, I loved it. I loved it and wanted it, and its life ended.”

A mother confronts the painful truths of trying to save a son who’s a danger not only to himself, but to the rest of the family as well.

After her husband’s infidelity, Christine Kalafus re-architected her marriage. Now she needs to let her son in on the plans.

While caring for her mother post-surgery and her grandmother during her final days, Megan Stielstra wonders who’s really taking care of who.

After years of strife with her mother, Vanessa Mártir finds unconditional love in a new, tender relationship.

Five months into her first pregnancy, one writer pursues a research project about the history of home economics, as she struggles with her own concerns about motherhood.

Melissa Matthewson remembers the flights of fancy that kept her company as a young girl, and bears witness to her daughter’s.

Are you really achieving representation for your child with special needs if you’re only sharing the upbeat, attractive photos on social media?

Cinelle Barnes considers how the chaos and discipline of dance kept the disparate parts of her being stitched together.

Vanessa Mártir introduces Writing the Mother Wound, a series of essays on mothering presented in collaboration with Writing our Lives and Longreads.

After a traumatic experience with childbirth, Rachel Somerstein struggles to bond with her newborn daughter.

Artist Myfanwy Tristram was irritated by her teenage daughter’s extreme fashions — until she took an illustrated journey into their origins.

When a high-risk pregnancy jeopardizes their eyesight, Heather Quinn explores the expectations of motherhood and finds common ground with a patron saint.

In the wake of childbirth and postpartum complications affecting her mental health and her marriage, Ukamaka Olisakwe picks herself up and starts over — in grad school.

A visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.

Pamela Adlon’s Better Things is not a riff on the antihero show so much as it is an antidote to it.

Amye Archer explores her own relationship with the shooting at Sandy Hook as she works with survivors to tell their stories.

Everyone has something to say about this mother’s body, career, and parental choices.

Cersei Lannister could have been a great antihero, but she was on the wrong show.

Jennifer Berney explores how queer families challenge traditional notions of heredity and paternity.

It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.

In the wake of her mother’s passing, Dylan Landis wrestles with unanswered questions about love and art, and imagines different possibilities of what could have been.