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Writing the Mother Wound

Posted inArts & Culture, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story

A Long, Lonely Time

by Hannah Seidlitz March 30, 2020December 16, 2022

“It’s strange to think that the Righteous Brothers outlive my mother. Sometimes I pretend they are singing to her.”

Posted inNonfiction

The Coastal Shelf

by juneameliarose March 25, 2020December 16, 2022

June Amelia Rose remembers coming out in her youth to a turbulent family as her mother died of cancer.

Posted inNonfiction

All Mom’s Friends

by Svetlana Kitto February 4, 2020December 16, 2022

Svetlana Kitto recalls her 1980s childhood in Hollywood during the early years of the AIDS crisis.

Posted inNonfiction

Leadership Academy

by Victor Wei Ke Yang January 20, 2020December 30, 2022

Victor Yang considers how his time as an immigrant rights organizer helped him understand his mother, and the guilt and obligation he carries from their relationship.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

Witness Mami Roar

by Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez December 27, 2019December 30, 2022

Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez remembers growing up undocumented in the shadow of her mother and father’s tumultuous relationship.

Posted inNonfiction

‘To Be Well’: An Unmothered Woman’s Search for Real Love

by Vanessa Martir November 27, 2019January 13, 2023

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

Posted inNonfiction

Tar Bubbles

by Melissa Matthewson November 20, 2019January 13, 2023

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

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Story

Frenzied Woman

by Longreads October 25, 2019January 20, 2023

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

Posted inCulture, Essays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story

I Had To Leave My Mother So I Could Survive

by Elisabet Velasquez October 14, 2019January 20, 2023

Elisabet Velasquez reckons with a lifetime of disharmony with her religious, mentally ill mother.

Posted inCommentary, Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Writing

‘A World Where Mothers Are Seen’

by Vanessa Martir October 14, 2019January 20, 2023

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

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