Birth Stories: Kendra DeColo’s I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World
The speaker is both ruthlessly in her body and simultaneously elsewhere.
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...moreHelen Phillips discusses her new novel, THE NEED.
...moreFor my daughter Stella’s first birthday, we got her a babysitter.
...moreWhen I came home from war, I felt relief. Now that I’m home after childbirth, I’m still waiting for relief. War ends. Motherhood does not.
...moreI think fresh semen smells like aspirin, which is made from a mold that grows on birch trees, which of course are phallic.
...morePraise the family that tethers me. Praise the well-used kitchen utensils and scoured mixing bowls and butter knives, thick slabs of jelly on the bread.
...morePoet Nicole Homer discusses her debut collection, Pecking Order, writing motherhood from many angles, and the importance of representation in the media.
...moreKarolina Ramqvist discusses The White City, her first novel to be translated to English, and the idea of a writer’s persona out in the world versus a just being a writer, writing.
...moreIf there is no distinction between show and commercial, ethics and entertainment, what kind of distinctions, if any, exists between her imaginary play, her consumer life, and our reality?
...moreI think about the birth of Mosley, and all of the dreams I already have for him at the ripe age of one. I know how I want him to see me—strong, smart, capable of anything and everything. This is how I want him to see all women, but me especially.
...moreDesiree Cooper discusses her debut collection of flash fiction, Know the Mother, what mother-writers need, and why motherhood is the only story she’s ever told.
...moreI wanted what Ari wanted: affirmation that I could be a good mother while making mistakes and having ugly, difficult thoughts.
...moreI’ve got milk. I’ve got it soaking through disposable nursing bra pads, small disks the size and shape of sand dollars, and dripping down my shirt. Jesus, how much, exactly, is there? you wonder. Or not.
...moreHey Football Fans, Have you been watching a lot of NFL preseason games lately? Or have you, like me, mostly been watching breastfeeding?
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