In queer life, a mother isn’t defined by gender, biology, or tradition. It’s a role, a presence, a commitment to someone else’s survival. A mother is the one who stays when others vanish, who nurtures ...

You have a lot going on, so we'll forgive you for asking, "When is Mother's Day 2026?" once or twice this month. (Oh, fine, it might've been three times, but you have a lot going on.) Don't panic—it ...

Erika J. Simpson writes a compelling scene in her evocative debut memoir “This Is Your Mother” about how a professor dashed her dream of becoming an actor during her freshman year of college. “Acting ...

Donald Winnicott, a British pediatrician and child psychoanalyst who wrote extensively and compassionately about the relationships between mothers and their infants, is best known among a general ...

It is hard to overstate the literary impact, in 1997, of Arundhati Roy’s début novel, “The God of Small Things.” A family drama set in a small town in Kerala, in southern India, it was evocatively ...

A mother’s death is life-altering. Whether close, indifferent, or estranged, the relationship between a mother and child is weighty, monumental, and closely tied to self-image. When our mother dies, ...