Fall 2025

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Vol. 39 No. 3 (Fall 2025)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Features

Healing Mother Wounds: Reclaiming Self-Worth

This guide explores how the emotional impact of mother wounds shape self-worth and relationships. It offers steps toward healing through inner child work, ancestral connection, and self-nurturing practices in order to break difficult cycles and create a legacy of love.
By Tomasina Chupco

Being a Good Relative Through Birthwork: In Conversation with Candace Neumann

Candace Neumann, a Red River Métis doula, reclaims Indigenous birthwork as an act of love, resistance, and community care. Through her full-spectrum support for Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQIA+ families, she offers culturally-rooted guidance, ceremony, and advocacy. Co-founder of Zaagi’idiwin, an Indigenous doula training program, Neumann sees her role as both a helper and an auntie.
By Jennifer Lee Smith

The Land is Listening

Blending personal essay and art writing, this piece reflects on grief, motherhood, and Indigenous art as intertwined acts of care and resistance. Grounded in Rebecca Belmore’s iconic megaphone sculpture, this essay explores how artists like Belmore, KC Adams, Jaimie Isaac, and Jenny Western reclaim land as a mother, witness, and collaborator in healing. 

By Liz Barron

Feminism Upfront

Poetry

Red Dress Woman
By Cambria Harris

Columns

Reclaiming Birth: Why Black Doulas Are Essential to Ending the Black Maternal Health Crisis
by Samah Nimir

Shattered Motherhood: Surviving the Guilt of a Child’s Suicide
By Donna F. Johnson

As Mother As I Want to Be
by Jeannie Joo

Reviews

ART

Don’t Worry, I’ll Only Show You the Good Parts
By 44.4 Mother/Artist Collective
Review by Sarah Cullen

daughters, mothers, grandmothers, and other sexual outlaws
By Inter Pares with Likhaan Center for Women’s Health, Nijera Kori, La Colectiva Feminista para el Desarrollo Local, and the Sudanese Organization for Research and Development
Review by Jacqueline Potvin

BOOKS

Living Expenses by Teri Vlassopoulos
Review by Sylvia Santiago

Treat Me Like Your Mother: Trans* Histories From Beirut’s Forgotten Past edited by Mohamad Abdouni with Joy Stacey and Rayan Abdel Khalek
Review by Banah el Ghadbanah

Mothering and Mother(Work) in the Times of Black Lives Matter by Haile Eshe Cole and Shana Calixte Pitawanakwat
Review by Maki Motapanyane

ma ma at The Table edited by Heather Canlas Rigg and Magdalyn Asimakis
Review by Kathryn Lennon 君妍

a body more tolerable by jaye simpson
Review by Whess Harman

Hurricanes in Perfect Power: Tales of Modern Motherhood edited by Candice Brathwaite
Review by Daphne Boxill

E nâtamukw miyeyimuwin: Residential School Recovery Stories of the James Bay Cree, Volume 1 by Ruth DyckFehderau
Review by Petra Chambers

Gone Feral: Unruly Women and the Undoing of Normative Femininity edited by Andrea O’Reilly and Casey O’Reilly-Conlin
Review by Alex Hall

Beneath My Scars: Surviving Domestic Violence by Anna Maskerine
Review by Janet Pollock Millar

She Falls Again by Rosanna Deerchild
Review by Janell Henry