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For Pride, we're spotlighting books that look at queer parenthood and encouraging people to read Torrey Peters' novel Detransition, Baby.

To celebrate Pride Month, we’re spotlighting a trove of queer parenthood writing and focusing on one specific author’s take on family.

I examine how "Mary Bly" by James Wright and "Summer in the suburbs: 6:00 A.M." by Jane Kenyon interact with the male gaze and the maternal.

Mare of Easttown may be a murder-mystery at its core, but its exploration of motherhood is its most compelling subject matter.

Ginny & Georgia accentuates class and race largely through its representation--and send-up--of gender norms.

In a novel heralded for its anti-conformism, Kerouac’s radicality is limited by his conservatism when it comes to conceptions of gender.

Mothers, both dead and alive, propel much of the plot in Amazon Prime's dramedy series FLACK.

Gather a box of tissues, a glass or two of wine, your best bubble friend and watch these three movies.

In Mike Mills’ 2016 film 20th Century Women, mothering, and its endless incarnations, take center stage.

Three movies, each released in the same decade, each with a radically different depiction of mothering.

Luster is a striking departure from that somewhat tired Millenial/Gen Z storyline about ‘finding oneself’ in the big city.

There’s something about a mother who deserts her children that is uniquely disturbing to the popular imagination.

The first time I taught this poem at Georgetown, most of the young men in the class were outraged.