Mother Tongue, Issue 10

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.

In this issue:

This tenth edition celebrates double figures with a baby pink cover starring American actress, artist and producer Lucy Liu ahead of her upcoming art exhibition in New York City, and starring roles in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and crime drama ‘Superfakes’.

Inside, Jerrie Tan reflects on her unconventional pregnancy cravings for ‘pregnancy-coded’ horror films, a response—she believes—to an anti-natalist undercurrent in certain feminist circles she once moved through, Erykah Badu guest stars as an advice guru remedying various readers woes, and Stephanie Wittels Wachs contemplates smoking as an antidote against tradwifery and—despite remaining a non-smoker herself—confesses her secret urge to indulge in the habit.