I ran my first anti-sexism workshop for children last week. They were a Montessori class of 5-6 year olds and I concentrated on questioning gender stereotypes, identifying sexism and a little bit of acceptance stuff of gender queer identities. I didn’t use those terms though, I talked instead about people thinking there are rules about [...]
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Adventures from the frontline: running my first anti-sexism workshop with young children
Posted in fatherhood, feminism, feminist fatherhood, GLBTI, lauca, montessori, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids on July 31, 2011 | 34 Comments »
More evening walks
Posted in cormac, i like walking, motherhood bliss, toddlers on July 29, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Looking at my archives it appears I obsess rather a lot about evening walks. Self, insight. By the end of the day when you’re totally over it? Get out and walk with the kids.. and keep walking until it is a respectable hour to go home and start drinking*. * Sorry about my shameful attitudes [...]
Yoga
Posted in cormac, motherhood bliss, toddlers on July 29, 2011 | 6 Comments »
If the mood takes you…
Pushing buttons
Posted in cormac, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, school kids, toddlers on July 29, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Cormac, age 2 years and 3 months. Cormac is at an age where if he finds a button he just has to push it. Lucky for him in this day and age there are buttons for pushing everywhere. Cause and effect. Over and over again. Annoying the crap out of people. All day long. Pushing [...]
This is what you meant isn’t it?
Posted in feminism, pop culture on July 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
.. when you said you want to wear white and be a princess for a day? From here, thanks Kat.
Show us your cats
Posted in feminism, GLBTI, pop culture on July 27, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Image: Tacocat I highly recommend “Sexist Queers” by Bree McKenna over at the Stranger about the expectations placed on feminists by their own community and the sexism of music media: I’ve always wanted to write a review of a dude band in the same way that some journalists write about my band, Tacocat. Because Tacocat [...]
Mothers working, not the end of the world
Posted in fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, work and family (im)balance on July 27, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Hard-line conservatives take note. As reported in The Economist: Contrary to these veiled aspersions, the study in question should reassure career-minded mothers. Conducted by researchers at University College London, it surveyed 19,000 British households to determine how parental employment affects a child’s behaviour throughout the first five years of life. The results will startle those [...]
The walk of shame
Posted in lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, pop culture, school kids, work and family (im)balance on July 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
The walk of shame these days is the one I do jog-walking late to the classroom with my daughter eating her breakfast out of a paper bag. “This is terrible,” I apologise to her. She reassures me, “It is ok Mum, we were just very busy this morning. I had to play with my guinea [...]
If you’re in the mood for clicking
Posted in feminism, motherhood, motherhood sux on July 26, 2011 | 6 Comments »
.. then would you care to sign this petition that Gemma has started? (Australian based). As the mother of a 16-month-old daughter, I eagerly awaited this year’s toy sale catalogues. As predicted, the girls’ toys pages were full of stereotypical female gender roles such as dolls, fluffy animals, and miniature replicas of cooking, cleaning and [...]
Hey Internet, clean up your mess
Posted in feminism, me on July 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I don’t have a formal comments policy, tis my blog so what do you expect, and if I did have a policy it would be something like damn straight on this.
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