Jo MaMa at their makeup station at their home in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. Photo: Ally Almore “I originally thought it was going to be maybe me and 100 of my closest drag friends just ...

Before the couple's food truck was completed, they ran Mama Jo’s pop-ups at Tessa Delicatessen (at 5724 East Colfax Avenue), where the concept's popularity really grew — but it wasn’t until ...

While children’s first words are often "mama," "dad" is not often the second word uttered. Getty Images. Kids generally learn the words "this" and "that" between 12 and 18 months.

Voilà: a word mama that “means” mother. That would have happened with the first humans—but more to the point, it has happened with baby humans worldwide, whatever language they are speaking.