Mutha Magazine

5 min read 2022-06-02 18:00:00

On Learning to Write With Chaos

My writing desk is filled with stickers and wooden blocks. The pile of books that I keep aside to read is scattered. My notebooks are lying on the

14 min read 2022-05-31 18:00:00

I hear the train a-comin’ I downloaded the puzzle game Red’s Kingdom on my phone approximately two weeks after Chantal’s* first reported due

1 min read 2022-05-26 20:00:00

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20 min read 2022-05-24 18:00:00

In June, 1977 I was twelve years old as I sat on the floor of my bedroom, a heating pad against my belly, the remnants of a gray blanket, one that

12 min read 2022-05-20 00:20:00

A Conversation with Jennifer Natalya Fink on sowing seeds of biodiversity to cultivate proud, just and joyful families through her latest book, All

7 min read 2022-05-17 17:40:00

Content note: depression, suicide, pregnancy loss Smashing It Smashing it meant starting a career transition in the midst of first trimester nausea

6 min read 2022-05-16 20:15:00

Relief washed over me as I pulled the maternity tank tops from my drawer and placed them in a pile for donation or disposal. Maternity fashions had

4 min read 2022-05-12 17:15:00

“Tell me our family’s secrets,” my son said to me one night when I was putting him to sleep. I lay in his bed beside him with my eyes closed

1 min read 2022-05-09 22:33:51

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8 min read 2022-05-03 20:02:00

My fourteen-year-old daughter calls me breathless after school. “I was at the front of the march, Mom. I was on the megaphone and everyone was

8 min read 2022-04-28 18:00:00

“Can you come out to the car? She’s refusing to get out.” The voice on the phone was hard and automatic. My husband and I had been waiting all

5 min read 2022-04-27 18:00:00

The daycare my son attended as a baby was about a mile down the street from the school where I taught. In what felt like my only act of self-care in

4 min read 2022-04-26 20:00:00

After three years of fertility injections, I didn’t want any pain. I’d attended childbirth classes, glossing over the breathing techniques,

6 min read 2022-04-22 20:32:00

On a bucket list trip to the Great Barrier Reef over a decade ago, I saw firsthand that climate change was no longer theoretical.I was in the

7 min read 2022-04-14 22:03:00

The second time I was twenty-eight. I am not sure I would call it the second time I gave birth, because it was more like it was just taken from me.