Samuel Zeller
Lee Taylor is a writer, musician and light worker raising two children in Brooklyn, NY. She has an MFA in creative writing from The New School and spent the past six years living and blogging in Switzerland. Her essay “The Patron” was recently published in the inaugural print edition of Hofstra University’s literary journal, Windmill. She was also featured in the March issue of Bodega, an online literary magazine.
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Via Rebecca Gonzales
...bookbinding, activism, and mothering brown boys in these tumultuous days
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Andrew Neel
My daughter has had two boyfriends so far. She’s a late starter (not a problem for me) and quite a picky gal (also not a problem). Last weekend she asked if she could stay at boyfriend number two’s place in upstate New York. Not having met him, I said no but he can come to our place.
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Eugéne Atget via The Getty Museum
Rebecca (Schwab) Cuthbert is a writer and animal shelter volunteer living in Western New York. Her work has been published in Brevity, Slipstream, Treehouse Magazine, and elsewhere.
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via IMDB
Recently, I had the privilege of reading Samantha Duncan's chapbook The Birth Creatures (Agape Editions, 2016). The chapbook is scary, poignant, and honest--it centers around a pregnant woman who is only three weeks away from giving birth. In this way, it focuses on what birth actually means, and the frightening and surreal parts of pregnancy that many women often aren't sure how to vocalize--or are too afraid to vocalize. I love how brave Duncan is by focusing on what our society cannot--that pregnancy is not always pretty and happy--and in many ways, it's a violation of a woman's body, regardless of how loving and beautiful it also is.
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Remember when your kid discovered The Cure and you were a proud mama?
Recently, my daughter turned NINETEEN. I’m feeling a little nostalgic so I’ve decided to forgo the literary stuff and give a little list of the best and the worst of my mothering adventures and how I coped through them. I am so proud and pleased that this wonderful creature came through me. I take some of the blame for her problems but I know she was destined to be just who she is – an arty, slightly moody, over-intelligent, secure and yet slightly insecure girl-on-the-verge-of-woman with the world at her fingertips and just enough strength to reach for it.
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Aela Labbe
I’ve often wondered how to move away from heteronormative parenting. I want to give my kids choices — to leave room for them to be themselves, whoever that turns out to be. But it takes a conscious effort to back away from what I was raised with and what I see around me, from what is provided for us and staring us in the face. It requires forethought to present the alternatives.
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I was 21 years old when I had my son. His father and I were utterly unprepared, not nearly mature enough to have a baby together, and ultimately not a good match. Within 6 months of our son’s birth, we had split.
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Aëla Labbé
AMANDA MONTEI: The mother-daughter relationship really fascinates me: the daughter as simulacrum for the mother, the mother as a kind of broken promise to the daughter-- broken because motherhood is so illusory. Mothers are difficult for daughters because, whatever our level of intimacy with them, they teach us about the domestic scene and femininity, those types of violence, but also that curious mix of protest and real love found in each of her acts of care.
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