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The Not-Prenatal Vitamin: WENDY C. ORTIZ on Not Having A Second Kid

Each day I take the not-prenatal vitamin, I’m reminded that I’ve made the choice to not have another baby. My partner supports the choice I’ve made. She would have another baby in a second if I said I...

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Dare to be Heinie! AYUN HALLIDAY Talks to MUTHA

Ayun Halliday has been illustrating her parenting adventures for 15 years in the The East Village Inky. Check out a recent excerpt here! I started reading the zine in my early twenties, when I was...

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Rock MUTHA: An Interview with CLAUDIA GONSON

Claudia Gonson is in the bands The Magnetic Fields and Future Bible Heroes. She also lives down my block in Brooklyn and we hang out with our kids. I met her in a dumpling shop. My daughter Lola was a...

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Wendy C. Ortiz on FOOD ANGST

Breakfast sandwich with egg, sausage and cheese. Hash brown nuggets. Diet Coke. I’m the mother who side-eyes your kid’s snacks and, against my better judgment, compares what I’ve brought for my own kid...

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Mama, Ella Has A Penis!: MARLO MACK on How To Talk To Your Children About...

So, you’re a progressive parent, right?  Sure you are. You’re teaching your children that all cultures and religions and skin colors are made equal. You’ve explained that some kids at school may have...

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Danielle Leshaw Says: NO BULLYING, OR NO SCHOOL

I am willing to homeschool my son.  He’s almost eleven and in fifth grade.  Right now, everything is fine.  He has, for the past several years of elementary school, reliably done his homework without...

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Bronwyn Davies Glover on ‘PROVING’ GENDER

“I can prove your child’s gender!” I look blankly at a woman’s excited expression as she sits herself down beside me. “I can. I’ve figured it out. I see you at all the drop ins and now I know. Wanna...

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Nina Packebush on GRANNY-MAMA, SISTER-AUNT & UNCLE JESSE

These days we are all well versed in the mantras “there are all kinds of families” and “love makes a family.” Family is not about mommies and daddies any longer, there can be single moms and single...

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Beginning’s End: A Comic by Rina Ayuyang

Rina has finally found the time to draw her own comics again, but now with her son as chief collaborator and critic.

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Elizabeth Earley’s UNCOMMON FAMILY

Just before I depressed the plunger of the syringe, I looked out the skylight window that framed thin tree branches and noticed how elegant they looked against a soft gray sky. I was on my back on the...

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