Momologues

Sixty-two self-identifying mothers responded to 18 text prompts. Read them here.

Jan 2, 2023

My Son Didn't Mean to Hate Me.

My first husband was dissatisfied with his mother and when later in our marriage, he fell on hard times, he made it clear that he...

Jul 23, 2022

Conversations with My Seven Year Old

7 yo: I need a bandaid. Me: For what? 7 yo: My knee. Me: What’s wrong with your knee? 7 yo: I’m afraid it’s going to faint. :: After...

Jul 11, 2022

I was not ready to make this commitment, and neither was he.

When I was in college, after a spell of indiscriminate sex partners who were not at all interesting or good to me, I met an artist who...

Jul 10, 2022

We were not ready to start a family.

It’s almost 1am here. I’m wide awake after cleaning up the vomit filled bed of my eight year old. I’m also pregnant with my third child,...

Jul 10, 2022

We all are born, we live and we all die, but fuck cancer.

Birth and death seem to go hand in hand. The immense feelings, emotions, and experiences that come with motherhood are unexplainable, ...

Jul 10, 2022

Nine months later, the same woman who counseled me for my abortion delivered my perfect baby boy

I knew I was pregnant. That’s not why I made an appointment at the family planning clinic. It wasn’t my first time in this situation,...

Jul 6, 2022

I owned that choice

I was 23 when I had an abortion. I was a senior in college and getting ready to study and travel abroad for my final semester. I was...

Jul 2, 2022

Too Poor

I had been engaged for about 6 months. I had been feeling ill for several weeks, and when I missed a second period (because who on...

Jun 29, 2022

I squatted, reached inside and...

We were interrupted unexpectedly and he bolted out the back door so no one would know. The phone rings. On the other end was him. He said...

Jun 28, 2022

I wanted that baby so much

I had a complete hysterectomy that removed my uterus and a baby with a healthily beating heart the night before Roe v Wade was...

Jun 26, 2022

My body felt different immediately

Storytelling is my love-language and you'd think that I'd be able to be loud and proud over this, but as you know, or can imagine, it's...

Jun 25, 2022

I was depending on my IUD to work

I had just graduated college. 22 years old. Left my boyfriend. Had a fling. Learned I was pregnant. Not sure which guy. Fresh out of...