Mother Tongue is a biannual print magazine that questions (and celebrates) modern motherhood through inclusive stories about art, sex, pop culture, politics, food, and some things in between. It's not about children or how to raise them: it's about the nuanced lives we are living, as mothers and so much more.

Issue 9 is filled with women who share, with great conviction, how they see the world (and themselves in it): filmmaker Mary Bronstein turns the experience of motherhood into a horror spectacle; writer Alexa Wilding asserts her existence amidst illness in the best way she knows how; and our cover star, Erykah Badu, is, in her own words, "pregnant with possibilities." Caro Claire Burke confronts millennial secondhand embarrassment and wonders why we're so afraid of it; artist Carmen Winant takes us on a quintessentially American road trip (with her mother); and we publish a short story for the first time—a ghost story by the young writer Yukti Narang. There's also talk of earlobes, a story of fertilization like you've never seen it before, poetry by Kate Baer and Hala Alyan, an ode to frivolity, and a re-evaluation of Linda and Paul McCartney's supposedly perfect love story: yet another reminder that things aren't always what they seem. This issue also includes words and work by: Hala Alyan, Angelica Alzona, Joana Avillez, Kate Baer, ​​Kate Branch, Caro Claire Burke, Clémence Polès Farhang, Erin Feher, Kate Forster, Liana Finck, Hannah Felt Garner, Malwina Gudowska, Victoria Hely-Hutchinson, Bess Kalb, Hillary Kelly, Julie Kim, Keerthana Kunnath, Shannon Cartier Lucy, Chau Luong, Melissa Maerz, Janet Manley, Weronika Anna Marianna, Helena Minginowicz, Yukti Narang, Alice Pfeiffer, Naila Ruechel, Vanessa Saba, Anaïs Wade, Alexa Wilding and Carmen Winant.