190 x 240 mm, 130 pages

Houston, US/London, UK

Biannual

First published 2021

Founders/editors: Melissa Goldstein and Natalia Rachlin

Creative director and design: Vanessa Saba

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’.

This tenth edition celebrates double figures with a baby pink cover starring American actress, artist and producer Lucy Liu ahead of her upcoming art exhibition in New York City, and starring roles in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ and crime drama ‘Superfakes’.

Inside, Jerrie Tan reflects on her unconventional pregnancy cravings for ‘pregnancy-coded’ horror films, a response—she believes—to an anti-natalist undercurrent in certain feminist circles she once moved through, Erykah Badu guest stars as an advice guru remedying various readers woes, and Stephanie Wittels Wachs contemplates smoking as an antidote against tradwifery and—despite remaining a non-smoker herself—confesses her secret urge to indulge in the habit.

On the Journal:
At work with Mother Tongue, ‘The pandemic was definitely our spark, because we both (had to) put work on pause to stay home with our kids when schools shut down in the spring of 2020. The load on mothers the world over just got so intense, and we felt like there were so few arenas to have candid, more nuanced conversations about the realities of motherhood today...’
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On Vimeo:
magCulture meets Mother Tongue, recorded at the magCulture Shop on 30 June 2022.
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