Mother Tongue Magazine - Issue 08

Mother Tongue Magazine - Issue 08, Spring Summer 2025. This issue is essentially a kaleidoscopic invitation to rethink what things may look like if we—women—envision the future in a brave new light, and then make it real: in our own minds, in our own homes, in our communities, and then far, far beyond.

Find Chemaly's full manifesto of ‘what ifs’ inside; alongside Kimberly Harrington reclaiming the term ‘slut’; Noor Tagouri interviewing her mother Salwa; a conversation on sex under fascism; lush photographs from Farah Al Qasimi; and an interview with Amanda Knox—infamously wrongly convicted for the murder of her roommate as an exchange student in Italy.

This issue also features words and work by Tina Berning, Davvon Branker, Veronica Chambers, Sophie Douala, Melissa Febos, Hannah Felt Garner, Jillian Guyette, Kimberly Harrington, Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, Amanda Hess, Hillary Kelly, Amanda Knox, R.O. Kwon, Sheena Meade, Amanda Montei, Andrea Mortson, Annie Marie Musselman, Casey Niccoli, Farah Al Qasimi, Logan Randall, Vanessa Saba, Fenna Schilling, Noor Tagouri, Anja Tyson, Fiorella Valdesolo, Anaïs Wade, Connie Wang, Jessie Kanelos Weiner, Alexandra Welch.

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.

130 pages | 7.5" x 9.5"