Mother Tongue #7

Mother Tongue is a biannual print magazine that interrogates (and celebrates) modern motherhood through inclusive stories about art, sex, pop culture, politics, food and a few things in between.

It’s not about kids or how to parent them: it’s about the nuanced lives we are living—as mothers, and much more.

The magazine is edited by co-founders Melissa Goldstein and Natalia Rachlin and designed by creative director Vanessa Saba.

Mother Tongue - Issue #07

Issue #7 confronts the before, the after and the in between; the surreal confusion of the present, the friendly ghosts of the past and the utter unknown of the near future. This issue also reminisces about arty orgies with Hillary Kelly and follows the signs to a Spiritualist epicenter on an occult road trip with Janet Manley.

Nightbitch author Rachel Yoder thinks about time: its passing, its limitations, its inevitability; and Suleika Jaouad and her mother, Anne Francey, dive headfirst into mortality, maternity, and the perils of doing drugs (not the fun ones) in the bathroom. 

This issue also features work and words by: Ana Maria Caballero, Rachel Cope, Dione Davis, Amie Dicke, Cynthia Edorh, Charlie Engman, Hannah Felt Garner, Gem Fletcher, Maria-Ines Gul, Sarah Hahn, Laura McLaws Helms, Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, Thessaly LaForce, Nicole Graev Lipson, Suchitra Mattai, Hannah Michelle Provisor, Joanna Rakoff, Isabel Reitemeyer, Naila Ruechel, Vanessa Saba, Katherine Sheehan, Sunny Shokrae, Rebecca Storm and Fiorella Valdesolo.