EDITORIAL NOTE: MOMS ISSUE
GUTS editors share what we've learned from our mothers
Issue 4: Moms
MOMS OF VANCOUVER
Four Vancouver moms discuss kids, parenting choices, work-life balance and more in conversation with Emma Childs
A COMIC ABOUT BECOMING A MOM
Rebecca Roher's original comic illustrates the physical tumult of childbirth and the transformative experience of becoming a mom
HEY MOM
A candid conversation about porn, abuse, and the Pope between artist Soleil Launiere and her mother, Louise Bergeron—en français et en anglais!
WE THREE QUEENS
Lovers Mike and Gary reflect on masculinity, maternal care, and life with their ninety-one-year-old roommate, "Queen D."
MOTHER/EARTH: ON CHOOSING
"People are reluctant to link female experience with the fertility of the earth." Bethany Hindmarsh reflects on how her relationship with environmental activism changed after learning of her own infertility
THESES ON POSTPARTUM
Postpartum depression becomes a site of struggle and solidarity in Madeline Lane-McKinley and Marija Cetinic's meditation on the precarity of motherhood under capitalism
MEETING EACH OTHER’S MOMS
Brett Cassady Willes and Katherine Starks talk about inheritance, feminism, loss, and queerness as they learn about each other by getting to know their mothers-in-law
ON BECOMING AN IMPERFECT MOTHER
Eva-Lynn Jagoe navigates new possibilities for parent-child relationships in the wake of divorce
SAME BUT DIFFERENT
"Everyone is fine with two moms having a baby, as long as the roles are clearly demarcated." On queering motherhood, by Pamela and Michelle Baer
IN CONSIDERATION OF BELLY BUTTONS
Who are you from? Sylvie Vigneux traces the erasure of Indigeneity in her family
PETTING WILD BEARS (AND OTHER STORIES)
A feminist genealogy of grandmotherly love by Emily Hill
HELD
A family changes after a parent passes away, but how does a house make space for the absence? A literary essay on memory, loss, and shelter by Zoë Ritts
I’M TURNING INTO MY MOTHER
Mary-Dan Johnston weaves together family trauma, structural oppression, and personal strength in this powerful reflection on maternal inheritance
IN THE BUSH ZINE
A zine on moms, feminism and Facebook chats by Vancouver creative collective In the Bush