“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.

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“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.

“It was so important to me you never grew up lonely…” Lisa Lim on having an only child

“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...

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“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.

“Baba’s love was like hugging a rock…” New comic from Lisa Lim at the link! 🔗

“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

“This 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.” Ariel Neitch on trying to conceive.

“Community is what fascism cannot overcome.” New from Amy Martin. 🔗

“It wasn’t 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 didn’t have a clue.” - Brittany Miles #schizophrenia #executivedysfunction #essays

Resources for resisting ICE in your community and an #ICEoutcomics call to action here: open.substack.com/pub/aubreyhi...

“The hospital’s rules were clear. Olive wasn’t allowed to sleep with me. She was too little—a fall risk. Her crib sat just out of reach.” - Mikaela Perron-Sampson #pediatriccancer

“My first thought: My god. They killed somebody, again. My second: If they’re out here shooting white people in cold blood, what chance do the rest of us have?” New from Sharline Chiang. #heatedrivalry #ice #essays

“My son, a true artiste, hid his vegetables in the back of the bookcase in the dining room, which I didn’t find out about until we moved. What were all these tiny orange things behind the encyclopedias?” From Jennifer Hayden’s new graphic memoir, WHERE THERE’S SMOKE, THERE’S DINNER - excerpt at 🔗

“A cousin, swollen with her third child, stood still while the women circled her like a secret.” New from Maria Olujic 🔗

“but the vibrating fleshiness of real-life babies did not yield to the stopwatch…” From “Rodent Mother” by Shelley Smithson - read it here ⬇️

Take to the streets - new from Rachel Deutsch

“I can’t sleep. I can’t stop thinking about ICE and how they killed Renee Good.” New from longtime MUTHA contributor Lisa Lim: reflections on ICE, state-sanctioned violence, and the murder of Renee Good.

“New parents love to talk about strollers and sleep sacks. But there’s no book called What to Expect When You’re Expecting an Eighteen-Year-Old. No budgeting app for senior-year expenses. No “End of Childhood” ornament.” New from Zora Foote. 🔗 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."

“Where 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.” - Abby Vines-Lopez #essays #bodies #tattoos

“If we could go back in time, before the dark winter of her decline, to the hopeful promise of the solstice.” Michelle Fitzgerald on seasons, solace, and the sandwich generation.

“You’re just 14 years old in the world and then all at once you’re 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?” - Amy Turn Sharp 🔗

I got to interview Kate Rope about her new book, "Strong As A Girl." Now I can add "author interviewer" to my writing accomplishments.

New at MUTHA: Megan Hanlon in conversation with Kate Rope, author of STRONG AS A GIRL. Read it below!

“Do I research pre-K options? Or places to flee?” New from KC Councilor. #comics #graphicmemoir #transfamilies

“We lose part of our heritage and identity simply by not knowing the ancestral stories omitted, secrets held, and histories lost and forgotten.” New from Kris Ann Valdez. #essays

“You know this is happening with others, but even when you know other people are going through it, you still feel lonely. You feel like it’s just you. You’re the one with the problem child….” Read the rest of D.W. McKinney’s interview with Nefertiti Austin about SHE’S JUST SPIRITED at the 🔗

“I’m pregnant.” “How could you do this to me? What? Fuck.” New from Deborah Richardson. #pregnant