Browsing the "Language" Category

“You Know How Americans Are”

March 15th, 2022 | by Milda M De Voe

He didn’t even have the words to say “speak English”—he only knew that my language was not the language everyone else in his world was now speaking, and that enraged him


Call It By Its Name

March 10th, 2020 | by Kira Garcia

Whether my son turns out to be a boy, a girl, or neither, I want him to know that our bodies belong to us and that language is important. This applies to names, pronouns, and of course, body parts.


At Least For Now

January 29th, 2020 | by Melissa Chandler

I forget I was once a person who could sit with nothing but words for hours, rearranging them, creating something where before was only blank space. Now I’ve helped create you, and it feels as if we’ve been walking together in a deep wood.


POEMS by KUO ZHANG

February 11th, 2019 | by Kuo Zhang

Pregnancy I have known the secret joy of pregnancy, clip-clop of heartbeats in duet, high-fives across the belly, a mini-stove


AREN AIZURA on CHESTFEEDING

January 30th, 2019 | by Aren Aizura

Chestfeeding. Autocorrect doesn’t know this word and changes it to chested. Chestfeeding was what my daughter Kit and I did


HOW TO MAKE A FAMILY

October 15th, 2018 | by Lakshmi Iyer

You want a baby. Babies. Your husband agrees, albeit begrudgingly. But month after month your hopes surge and fall. You



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