The Milky Way Zine

Published Sept 2025

The Milky Way Zine is a limited-edition Risograph printed publication, created by Mammas Write, a collective of mothers determined to continue their creative lives within the chaos of new motherhood. Supported by the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow’s learning programme as part of the Feed project, the group have met regularly since Summer 2024.

The zine’s content was created with the artists’ babies and toddlers very much present, in arms, joined at the nipple, woven into the work. Here, mothering, feeding and creativity are inseparable.

The contributors use writing and image-making to rediscover themselves, and this book emerged in the shared solidarity of their weekly sessions, capturing the beauty, mess, and power of their mothering and breastfeeding journeys.

Download a digital version of the publication here.

 
A group of women and children seated around a large orange upholstered chair in a gallery setting
Four women standing in a line; one carries a small child and another holds a zine booklet.
Woman and small child sitting in a large chair, holding a The Milky Way zine.

Photos by Neil Hannah, courtesy of Glasgow Life Museums.