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Requiem for Target

3 weeks ago | muthamagazine.com | Cheryl Klein

Someone asked me what I would like to do with my mom if she were suddenly returned to me, and I said, with a self-conscious laugh, “Go to Target?”My mom would laugh too, probably. My mom, who sewed matching dresses for my sister and me, who devised her own curriculum for our two-student summer school, who read books to us, who diligently cared for all the pets we abandoned. She wasn’t some shallow shopaholic, is what I’m saying, though she did love a bargain.
In Praise of Antibiotics and DEI Hires

2 months ago | muthamagazine.com | Cheryl Klein

The week my toddler spent in the hospital battling a bacterial infection, I completely ignored the news. The first few days, as his left eye swelled like a tomato following a bout of flu that swept through our household, I curled my body around his small, feverish one in the remote control bed and used my phone primarily as a phone and a notepad. No need to doomscroll when I already felt encased in doom.
Rebel, Rebel

2 months ago | muthamagazine.com | Cheryl Klein

It’s a crisp, cold, cloudless August day. I wrestle my squirming, worming three-month-old into the pram. Neither of us slept the night before. Her ravenous little mouth would not unlatch from my stinging, red-raw, blistered breasts thanks to the clusterfuck that is cluster feeding. I am a deflated cow, my tits hanging like airless balloons, aching and burning, ready to refill to the point of bursting the moment I hear her cry.
Hazy Shade of Winter: Fire, Destruction, and Survival in Los Angeles

Jan 24, 2025 | muthamagazine.com | Cheryl Klein

On Wednesday morning, we packed things that were important: old photos, the kids’ adoption papers, teddy bears, a file folder labeled “Records” that usually lived in the back of the nine-year-old’s closet. We packed things that were important in the moment: clothes and Hot Wheels cars and cat litter and a jug of oat milk. We loaded them into our cars next to the cats and the kids.
Storytelling Is About Love: A Conversation with Tara Dorabji

Jan 23, 2025 | muthamagazine.com | Jen Bryant

Tara Dorabji is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, and writer. Her debut novel Call Her Freedom (Simon & Schuster, 2025) is a multi-generational saga of resilience and hope. Set in the fictional village of Poshkarbal in the Himalayas, the novel follows Aisha and her family from 1969 to 2022. Living in a rural setting beset by militarization and colonialism, Aisha is confronted with dangerous situations and difficult decisions as she fights to defend her family and culture.
Maman

Jan 8, 2025 | muthamagazine.com | Catherine Cleary

In the months following my divorce, I became preoccupied by a spider. I discovered the spider entirely by accident one afternoon while attending a free family day at the former home, now museum, of a long-dead local philanthropist. To enter the museum, my four-year-old and I crossed a wooden suspension bridge over a belt of sandy bayou. That morning it had rained, and the bayou was swollen, muddy. Debris flowed in the current. Beneath our feet, the wooden bridge trembled.
The Flawed-Mom Memoir My Kid Might Write

Dec 15, 2024 | muthamagazine.com | Cheryl Klein

There is a scene in the 2003 movie Casa de los Babys—about a group of American women who travel to an unnamed Latin American country to adopt children—in which two of the moms-to-be wonder out loud about the fate of whichever child lands with Marcia Gay Harden’s character, who is a hardcore Karen before such a word existed. Lili Taylor’s character, a book editor, says something like,, “I read a lot of memoirs.
Anything Else

Nov 21, 2024 | muthamagazine.com | Stephanie Luke

Stephanie Damplo Luke is an illustrator and designer with a focus on sustainable agriculture and environmentalism. Stephanie’s art explores cultivating connections with nature, travel, and culture. When she isn’t traveling for sun, outdoors, friends, Stephanie lives in MA with her family. More of her work can be found at: StephanieLuke.com and @SteffiLuke on Instagram.
Birth (Un)Medicalized: A Case Study

Nov 14, 2024 | muthamagazine.com | Jennifer Case

My birth begins at 3 a.m. when I wake with a rock-hard uterus that softens and then hardens again. I have been waking with such Braxton-Hicks contractions for days, at exactly this time, so at first I do not think anything about them. I drink a glass of milk, get back into bed, and then, when they continue, decide to take a bath, which has stopped stubborn Braxton-Hicks contractions in the past. I fill the tub with warm water and keep the light off. My daughter sleeps across the house.
Please Rate Your Expectations of Motherhood (excerpts from a pregnancy diary)

Nov 7, 2024 | muthamagazine.com | Brittani Sonnenberg

Baby Dreaming Published on November 7th, 2024 | by Brittani Sonnenberg Please Rate Your Expectations of Motherhood (excerpts from a pregnancy diary) Tags: Brittani Sonnenberg, Comics, Diary, graphic diary, graphic memoir, Motherhood, mothers, Parenting, parents, Please Rate Your Expectations of Motherhood, pregnancy, pregnancy diary About the Author Brittani Sonnenberg Brittani Sonnenberg is the author of the novel Home Leave, which was selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice. Her short...