I haven’t loved an Evangelist rhyme so much since “only a fool thinks drugs are cool”.

I didn’t realise you stay-at-home fathers were so hard core, you’re going straight to hell with us feminists.

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How can I break this to you, Liberal Party?

He’s just not that into you.

Image credit: The Age
Stop waiting around on Saturday night for Peter Costello’s call, go out with someone else. He can’t commit, he won’t commit.

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Guest Post: Reflections on ‘mother work’ by a stay-at-home mother

Guest post: As many of you probably know blue milk is written by a ‘working mother’. I work part-time outside the home and being a part-timer I feel like I can relate to some of the experiences of stay-at-home mothers (SAHMs) but I’m aware that I’m missing a lot of the subtleties of the experience, and probably some [...]

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Mother guilt as a luxury item

Where are all the black mother bloggers? Or any mother bloggers apart from the white ones? Not on the big mother blogging sites, as Veronica I. Arreola points out here in a piece for Bitch magazine. I don’t read sites like Alpha Mom so I’m not all that familiar with them, but I can see from a [...]

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Real responses now out-number the spam, so it is all good

So I’m about to host this …

.. here on my little site. I invite (and postively encourage) you to make submissions here. I’ll be putting the carnival together this weekend so you have the rest of this week (end of August) to submit any feminist posts you’ve read or written on an Australian or New Zealand blog this [...]

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Writing in the sand

Lauca first started writing letters (M for Mummy, D for Daddy, and L for Lauca) when she was one, and it was entirely of her own volition and we were very surprised. Even becoming a parent I didn’t know anything about babies and that was one of the moments where I realised how little I knew about [...]

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blue milk in Manga

Well, not exactly a photographic resemblance, but amusing enough to create while you’re lying down with a cold and zero energy for serious blogging. Our house is in a state of chaos too by the way. For some reason, except for my partner and I, everyone has decided to pee on the beds here. We have run [...]

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Lab rats

I have been promising this PhD student a plug for her research for a while now. I met Aztec-rose at a film discussion I was co-facilitating on mother guilt and she was lovely and full of enthusiasm. Aztec-rose has finally jumped the ethical clearance hoops at her university and her blog is now up and running and she’s [...]

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Mama PhD: Review

Mama PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life is edited by Elrena Evans and Caroline Grant and is now available at Amazon. The book is also supported by a website and a blog. This is a review written by blue milk for MotherTalk.
This book is a collection of personal stories; stories from women who have attempted, some successfully and some not, and [...]

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If your child is (a little) highly strung

I recommend that you make friends with a mother who also has a highly strung child. She will tell you that you are the only mother she feels truly relaxed with, the only mother she knows for sure isn’t judging her. What she means is, your child has a little bit of the crazies going on too.

We [...]

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