How can I show my mother I am different from those god-denying white people I call my friends? How can I pull my mother's kidney stone out with my bare hands? How can I ensure she wakes up with adoring eyes every morning?

Inga Hensing on the ways trans women mother one another, through bars, in living rooms, on the dance floor.

Bini Adamczak in translation by Sophie Lewis proposes a new term to denote the antonym of penetration – a word that describes workers of the anus and the mouth, the vagina and the hand as active instead of passive.

Disobedient daughters of disobedient mothers, who broke all the rules so we could do the same.

I am learning that mothering is more of a decision. If this is unnatural, well, so is the way I’ve been brought into the role – through a death than a birth. Is it strange for a child to have years more experience being a daughter than her caretaker has at mothering? It’s a situation that requires work.

Is self-harm a kind of language? If so, what are Ed’s arms telling us over the table?

Kai Williams carries the weight of her great-grandmother and civil rights activist Yuri Kochiyama's legacy in the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests at her prep school.