It is an honor to see one of my favorite passages from my essay included in this awesome review by Asha Dore that was published in @MuthaMagazine! Check out her review of No Contact: Writers on Estrangement, edited by @jbartoy, published by @CatapultStory:
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"She didn’t mean to touch the fertility dolls; nine months later she gave birth." —Michelle Valenti on folklore and fertility muthamagazine.com/2026/03/fe…
"He asks me to pray, but my only god is the woman pushing life into my baby’s soft chest. How could a loving god let this happen to a five week old?" —Stefanie DeMaria Febus on the moment that haunts her muthamagazine.com/2026/03/co…
"In Gaza, life goes on. Tamara has told me over and over, 'In the face of it all, we love life.'" —Joon Ae Haworth-Kaufka on raising children in uncertain times muthamagazine.com/2026/03/to…
"But while I was becoming a better mother, it became obvious that Layla’s presence was taking a toll on me and Corey." —Brittany Miles on planning and adapting muthamagazine.com/2026/03/sh…
"That night, I lay awake in bed. I reflexively rubbed my hip bones, a decades-old habit. When I was sleepless or lonely or scared, my hands migrated to those sharp edges, and I felt comfort."
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"For less than 40 hours Franziska Braun was Hitler’s mother-in-law.... Hitler was never told that the Brauns were 1/32 Jewish." —excerpt from Terese Svoboda's Hitler and My Mother-in-Law in @muthamagazinemuthamagazine.com/2026/03/mo…
"A daughter-in-law needs information about the family she’s joining, where the skeletons are buried amid the bombshells." Excerpt from Terese Svoboda's new memoir, Hitler and My Mother-in-Law. muthamagazine.com/2026/03/mo…
"When Joey said something about the Poop Monster's big head coming out of the bowl, his brother said, 'I think it’s because I showed him the Skibidi Toilet video.'" —Cheryl Klein @CherylEKleinLAmuthamagazine.com/2026/03/th…
"My small A cups just didn’t seem like they were going to be the big producers, and I couldn’t shame my body anymore. It had suffered enough through years of infertility and a barrage of treatments." —Ellenora Cage on inducing lactation muthamagazine.com/2026/02/mi…