Liz Funk, the author of Supergirls Speak Out: Inside the Secret Crisis of Overachieving Girls in currently on tour with her book and she’s making a stop at blue milk. Funk’s book is described as an investigative look at a generation of over-achieving girls in the United States of America, young women who believe that [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Interview: Liz Funk, author of ‘Supergirls Speak Out’
Posted in body image, book review, feminism, motherhood, pop culture, work and family (im)balance, yummy mummy on March 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
You turned four
Posted in lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, preschoolers on March 29, 2009 | 13 Comments »
And you’re at this curious age where I can look at you and still conjure the remnants of your baby self out of your face, and yet at other times I watch you and seem to be receiving visions of the person you will become. I don’t know whether to cling on to the baby [...]
Guest post: One stay-at-home-mother’s feminism
Posted in 10 feminist motherhood questions, 10 things, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, work and family (im)balance on March 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Guest post: Demelza is 31 years old, married, has a university education, three young children and identifies as a stay-at-home mother. Here is her response to my 10 questions about your feminist motherhood. Demelza’s response asks some interesting questions about how socioeconomic class impacts on people’s perceptions of her choice to be a stay-at-home-mother.
(You can [...]
This friendship
Posted in lauca, motherhood bliss, preschoolers, your guide to perfect play dates on March 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I love watching Lauca and her friend together and imagining who they’ll be when they grow up. They’ll need someone like each other. It is not easy to take your own path as a girl. You need a friend who supports you if you’re going to step outside the box.
Pregnancy as public property
Posted in body image, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, pregnancy and birth, work and family (im)balance on March 27, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Every pregnant woman complains about people touching their pregnant belly without permission. Actually, this hasn’t greatly offended me this time around. Maybe because I love the feeling of tight pregnant bellies so much myself, I kind of forgive these people for wanting one quick touch on their way past me. (All the same, don’t go [...]
Ricky Gervais makes Elmo quite, quite bearable
Posted in motherhood bliss, pop culture on March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Aquatic life
Posted in babies, motherhood, motherhood bliss, pregnancy and birth on March 22, 2009 | 10 Comments »
My favourite part of pregnancy are the baby’s movements. I felt this baby before I was even twelve weeks pregnant, quite extraordinary considering I didn’t feel my daughter until around 20 weeks or so. But then something about the placenta being on the front last time. I like to think he just wanted to reassure [...]
The dress fitting
Posted in lauca, motherhood bliss, preschoolers on March 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Image: If you’re playing with cultural stereotypes of femininity you might as well leap right in and not splash about on the sides.
Lauca at a dress fitting, she is going to be a ‘flower girl’ for my sister’s forthcoming wedding. Her favourite part of the fitting? Following a recent stint of silkworm ownership Lauca was [...]
What to make of this?
Posted in babies, breastfeeding, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux on March 19, 2009 | 26 Comments »
I’m still formulating my thoughts on this and I want to hold back until I’ve finished a book review I’m working on, which just happens to be for a breastfeeding guide, but I can’t let this article drift out there indefinitely without casting my own link to it. Hanna Rosin’s The Case Against Breastfeeding has [...]
Follow up: Rudd government gets something very right
Posted in feminism, motherhood sux, politics, pregnancy and birth, tagged anti-choice, ban on family planning, foreign aid, senate votes on March 19, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Rudd government decided to end the ban on foreign aid for family planning which included options for abortion or abortion talk.
This concluded a repulsive deal made under the Howard government for a senate vote (ta-ta Harradine), and some ties with the Bush government and anti-choice lobbyists. The ban was aimed providing less reproductive choice [...]
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