I have two sick children at the moment. One recovering and one heading into the worst of it.Time is untethered and wandering all over the place for me. Yesterday Lauca spent the day with Bill’s mother who was delighted to discover Lauca has an interest in sewing. The Montessori school has taught Lauca to sew [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Sick kids sick
Posted in goddamn craft, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, school kids, work and family (im)balance on August 31, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Talking back
Posted in body image, feminism on August 31, 2011 | 3 Comments »
More gorgeous examples of culture jamming sexist advertising over here at the Ms. blog.
If you want in..
Posted in fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood on August 30, 2011 | 38 Comments »
I’ve picked up a bunch of new readers lately and I’d like to keep up with you better so if any of you happen to write blogs as feminist mothers or fathers or others pleeeease let me know.. would love to add you to my blogroll here. You don’t have to be writing heaps of [...]
Obstetrician/MP fighting for home birth rights
Posted in feminism, motherhood sux, pregnancy and birth on August 29, 2011 | 42 Comments »
I didn’t have a home birth, one of my children was born in a birth centre and the other one in a mainstream hospital but I absolutely support the right for other women to choose home birth if they so desire. Here is Andrew Laming MP (federal member of the House of Representatives and also [...]
Win a copy of The 21st Century Motherhood Movement
Posted in book review, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood bliss on August 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
PhD in Parenting is running a give-away of The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out On Why We Need To Change The World And How To Do It. I think the book is pretty amazing, but then I have a chapter in it so I’ll admit I’m not entirely impartial. The book is edited [...]
This is rape culture, and everyone is laughing
Posted in feminism, rape/sexual abuse on August 27, 2011 | 28 Comments »
I posted a link to this on twitter, but it really deserves wider distribution. Remember when I said that comedian, Rob Delaney can pull off a rape joke? Well, I meant it like the way I kinda make a rape joke here in this post, where the joke is on ‘rape culture’ and not rape [...]
On language
Posted in cormac, motherhood sux, toddlers on August 26, 2011 | 5 Comments »
There’s a world of difference between Cormac’s I want it and his self-invented phrase, I’n’t want it but you sure struggle to tell the difference when you hear it. Until you get it wrong, that is. (I’n’t want it = I not want it).
Because, links
Posted in body image, bratz hatred/pornification/sexualising children, classism, feminism, feminist motherhood, GLBTI, motherhood, politics, pop culture, race/anti-racism, sex of the icky parental kind on August 25, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Most of these links I put on twitter first, so if ‘inane and pointless’ is your cup of tea and you’re following me then.. how’s that working out for you? Otherwise, enjoy the newish links.. This, on the new book The Feminist Promise at The Pink & Blue Diaries. ON MOTHERHOOD: Perhaps one of the [...]
PART 5 – This is what I said a feminist mother looks like: the difficulties with being a feminist parent
Posted in 10 feminist motherhood questions, fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, GLBTI, sex of the icky parental kind, work and family (im)balance on August 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 are here. This is more of the presentation I gave at this motherhood conference. My presentation at that conference looked at some of the big themes I see coming out of all the responses I’ve received to my 10 questions about your feminist motherhood. In this [...]
Watch a man make a feminist joke about women’s bodies
Posted in feminism, GLBTI, race/anti-racism, rape/sexual abuse, sex of the icky parental kind on August 24, 2011 | 14 Comments »
I like my comedy dark and defiant. Comedian Rob Delaney likes to skate about on thin ice. Very thin ice. Back and forth and back and forth. Daring it to break.. or you. Sex jokes, rape jokes, child abuse jokes .. the works. So, be warned. But he’s also really funny and he’s pro-feminist. For [...]
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