Mother Tongue Magazine - Issue 04

Mother Tongue Magazine - Issue 04 analyzes dreams with Bat For Lashes, and talks Real Housewives and real smiles with Jenna Lyons. It makes sense of Whitney Houston with Amil Niazi and tends to songbirds of a different kind with artist Sheida Soleimani. Dina Gachman tells a winding tale of revenge without remorse, and builds a house for the future with Christene Barberich. Photographer Martina Zanin asks us to consider what happens when feline fixations go too far, and illustrator Rachel Deutsch conjures the everyday horror of our children’s unmeetable expectations. Sophie Ebrard contemplates sex and intimacy after kids, author Angela Garbes bridges the mother-daughter divide, and Ruby Warrington and Pooja Lakshmin discuss whether having children even makes sense anymore? And so much more.

Including contributions by Kholood Eid, Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, Sarah Hoover, Annie Armstrong Miyao, Bonnie Morrison, Rachel Sperry, Shana Trajanoska, Taravat Talepasand, Ruth van Beek,​​ Anaïs Wade, Han Wang, Diana Weymar, Amber Winick, Lauren Withrow, LaTonya Yvette and Alex Zafiris.

Mother Tongue was launched by two mothers tired of the traditional media portrayal of motherhood. In place of idealised aspiration and agony aunt problem-solving, the boldly-designed magazine focuses on the complex, real lives of mothers and the issues they share around ‘art, sex, pop culture, politics, food and a few things in between'. It is a bi-annual publication, first published in 2021. Founded and edited by Melissa Goldstein and Natalia Rachlin, in collaboration with Creative Director and Designer is Vanessa Saba. 

132 pages | 7.5" x 9.5"