Mother Tongue #7
190 x 240 mm, 130 pages
Houston/Los Angeles, US
Biannual
First published 2021
Founders/editors: Melissa Goldstein and Natalia Rachlin
Creative director and designer: Vanessa Saba
Mother Tongue was launched by two mothers tired of the traditional media portrayal of motherhood. In place of idealised aspiration and agony aunt problem-solving, the boldly-designed magazine focuses on the complex, real lives of mothers and the issues they share around ‘art, sex, pop culture, politics, food and a few things in between.’
This seventh edition arrives on the cusp of a pivotal US election (spot the Mother/Voter graphic on the back cover) and begins with some perspective from the editors—‘The project of motherhood is much bigger than elections... that is somehow reassuring.’ With writer Suleika Jaouad on the cover, inside find pieces from Nightbitch author Rachel Yoder on the uncertainty of time; Vidhya Ramalingam on fighting radicalisation online; Hillary Kelly on an art orgy; and Rachel Sklar on Jessica Valenti's ‘pro-choice crusade’.
On the Journal:
At work with Mother Tongue, ‘The pandemic was definitely our spark, because we both (had to) put work on pause to stay home with our kids when schools shut down in the spring of 2020. The load on mothers the world over just got so intense, and we felt like there were so few arenas to have candid, more nuanced conversations about the realities of motherhood today...’
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On Vimeo:
magCulture meets Mother Tongue, recorded at the magCulture Shop on 30 June 2022.
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