Over at many good things the writer has responded to my 10 questions about your feminist motherhood. One of the aspects she hit upon in her response that I found particularly poignant was her description of maternal desire and the way in which that can call into question some of the assumptions you held as [...]
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More good things: another response to ‘what does a feminist mother look like?’
Posted in 10 feminist motherhood questions, 10 things, breastfeeding, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, the first year of motherhood, work and family (im)balance on March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A new response to the ’10 questions about your feminist motherhood’
Posted in 10 feminist motherhood questions, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, the first year of motherhood on March 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
art=life (what a beautiful name for a blog), posted her thoughtful response to my 10 questions about your feminist motherhood over on her blog. I found this observation of hers particularly interesting, it is true that your feminism evolves through your lifetime, and nothing has kicked those changes along faster for me, than motherhood. How [...]
Annika Giannini sips wine
Posted in feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, pop culture, pregnancy and birth on March 15, 2011 | 5 Comments »
< Image: Annika Giannini defending her client, Lisbeth Salander. Did I really see the character of the very-pregnant women’s rights lawyer, Annika Giannini in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest sipping red wine during her meeting with Lisbeth Salander towards the end of the film? Like it was no big deal. Right, well how [...]
Dog speed: Charlie Sheen links
Posted in feminism, pop culture, this moment on March 11, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Adam Sternbergh with ‘(More) On Charlie Sheen’: But there’s another way to look at this debacle, one that has little to do with drugs, mental illness, #Tigerblood or even Sheen himself. The relationship between stars of Sheen’s magnitude (I know, that sounds a little odd right now) and the celebrity press has long been a [...]
Getting in trouble
Posted in cormac, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids, toddlers on March 11, 2011 | 3 Comments »
When there is a big age gap between you and your little brother it can feel like he is getting away with murder while expectations of your own behaviour are getting all the higher. It can feel like you are always having to be forgiving of and accommodating to him. You might start to feel [...]
On nap skipping
Posted in cormac, motherhood sux, toddlers on March 11, 2011 | 13 Comments »
The toddler nap skipped really is the gift that keeps on giving. Right through the rest of that day and well into the evening.
This revolution will be televised etc.
Posted in feminism, politics, pop culture on March 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
> Here are some of my favourite parts of the Times article – “Rage, Rap and Revolution: Inside the Arab Youth Quake”. First thing, the photo. This man’s face surely belongs on a t-shirt. Tunisian rapper, El Général who helped kick off a revolution in several parts of the Islamic world with his song about [...]
You’re never too young or too over-powered to be the slutty trouble-maker
Posted in feminism, motherhood sux, rape/sexual abuse on March 10, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Victim-blaming. No-one does it better than a court reporter, it seems. In this case we’re talking about allegations involving a group of eighteen men and teenage boys raping an eleven year old girl in Texas. The New York Times article, which is being thoroughly picked apart here by Mother Jones seems slanted towards concern for [...]
Great new blog: maternalselves
Posted in 10 feminist motherhood questions, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood on March 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I am sick with a second bout of flu. It is all very boring. But Happy International Women’s Day to you today, and look here… people writing really thoughtful stuff about feminist motherhood on their blog. (Not a ‘cute boy/girl + pet’ link in sight over there). maternalselves: thinking feminist mothering is written by two [...]
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