FOREWORD BY CHRISTY TURLINGTON BURNS
PART I MAMA, DON’T FAIL ME NOW . . .
My Little Early Perfect / STEPHANIE KALOI
The Unapologetic No / SORAYA CHEMALY
Parenting Without a Rope / HEATHER HEWETT
Mama Don’t Cook / CARLA NAUMBURG
The Hallowed Life of an Agnostic Mother / VICTORIA BROOKE RODRIGUES
When Our Hearts Walk Outside of Our Bodies / JESSICA VALENTI
Yes, I Am That Selfish / AVITAL NORMAN NATHMAN
The Good Enough Mother / NERISSA NIELDS
Another Way to End the Evening / ANDIE FOX
Is This Motherhood or Middle School? / NAOMI SHULMAN
There’s a Zombie Cavewoman in All of Us / AMBER DUSICK
No More Fakebook / SARAH EMILY TUTTLE-SINGER
Oh Father, Where Art Thou? / LISA DUGGAN
An Existential Crisis is Born / ALY WINDSOR
Through Distortion / ARWYN DAEMYIR
Down the Rabbit Hole / ANNE-MARIE LINDSEY
Failure to Launch / KIMBERLY MORAND
The Peculiar Curse of Mentally Ill Motherhood / SHANNON DRURY
PART IV MAMA BY ANY OTHER NAME
The Invisible Mother / SHAY STEWART-BOULEY
The Adoption Aisle / SARAH WERTHAN BUTTENWIESER
Confessions of a Born-Bad Mother / JOY LADIN
The Impossibility of the Good Black Mother / T. F. CHARLTON
Not Your Average Teen Mother / ELIZABETH CROSSEN
All the Single Ladies / JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER
The Way It’s Supposed to Be / KRISTEN OGANOWSKI
Joint Parenting / PAULINE ABRAHAM
The End of Cute / SHARON LERNER
The Macaroni and Cheese Dilemma / LIZ HENRY
Making Time for Lust / ERIKA LUST
Lucky American Girl / K. J. DELL’ANTONIA
My Online Life as a (Not So) Lesbian Mama / CHRISTINA SOLETTI
When Good Mothers Come From Bad Ones / GINA CROSLEY-CORCORAN