“We’ve confused ‘output’ with ‘value,’” she says. “I have a rule: I don’t create anything before 11 a.m. I don’t check my phone until I’ve finished one stupid, useless thing. Draw a snail. Memorize a single line of a poem. Count the number of tiles on your bathroom floor. That’s your real work. The rest is just commerce.”

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Alison Mutha’s memoir, “The Third Setting,” is available for preorder now. Her show “A Kindness of Crows” runs Nov. 15–Jan. 10 at Regen Projects, Los Angeles.

The magazine’s archive includes influential work from several writers with this name, each bringing a unique lens to the "mutha-hood" experience:

The articles penned by these authors typically challenge traditional, "saccharine" expectations of motherhood in favor of more nuanced portrayals: