This article by Emily Nussbaum is probably the best description of Internet feminism I have yet seen.. completely USA-centric though, of course. It is full of great observations – how the Internet provided a platform for more risk-taking and radical areas of feminist speech; how the playful, spontaneous, messy, consciousness-raising nature of feminist blogging resembles [...]
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Understanding Internet feminism
Posted in feminism, pop culture on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Expats
Posted in book review, me, pop culture on October 30, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Image credit. This is Ernest Hemingway, age 24 years. He was talented and beautiful, no wonder he had such an ego. (He’s more beautiful than I had realised as I’d only ever previously seen photos of him when he’s started to drink himself to ruin). Second, this is his passport photo. Behold. Has there been [...]
Night of the dead
Posted in bill, cormac, fatherhood, lauca, motherhood bliss, pop culture, school kids, toddlers on October 30, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Yes, we do Halloween in this house. Close friends are an American-Australian family so we mostly celebrate it at their party. Some Australians think Halloween here is American cultural imperialism but I’m willing to submit to the empire on this one, I really like Halloween. Take us, America. Rockin’ pumpkin carving, Bill made it. Eyeball [...]
Does the next revolution belong to fathers?
Posted in fatherhood, feminism, motherhood, motherhood sux, work and family (im)balance on October 29, 2011 | 8 Comments »
I find this article – “What About the Men?” - from Judith Warner so fascinating and timely. That men are experiencing work-family conflict isn’t new. Indeed, it’s been some time now that they – and younger men in particular – have been complaining of feeling the squeeze in even greater numbers of women. What appears [...]
A prior engagement
Posted in cormac, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids, toddlers, your guide to perfect play dates on October 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Cormac and his friend gardening, something that mostly seemed to involve eating a lot of their under-ripe grapes. It was clever of this child’s mother and I to have these second children of ours. It means we’ve been able to resume weekly get-togethers. We met pregnant at a birth centre and went on to spend [...]
Recommended clicking
Posted in ableism, breastfeeding, classism, fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, nothing, pop culture, pregnancy and birth, sex of the icky parental kind, single parenthood, work and family (im)balance on October 28, 2011 | 14 Comments »
An exhibition of stories of new mid-life mothers told through photographs and their words at Nurture. this blessed life on her recent experience in breastfeeding another mother’s baby. There are no Emily Post instructions on the correct etiquette for visiting someone’s home for the first time with the intention of breastfeeding their newborn. I went, [...]
The room of calm
Posted in home, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids, your guide to perfect play dates on October 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Lauca, in her bedroom of calm with her fellow stress-bunny friend*. These two have been highly strung little poppet friends since they were screaming babies in their mothers’ arms. His mother and I met in a doctor’s surgery years ago when we were both new to motherhood and she recognised the haggard expression on my [...]
Guinea pigs go for a ride
Posted in lauca, motherhood bliss, school kids, tagged guinea pigs on October 28, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Lauca’s very loved and very sweet guinea pigs. Also, how gorgeous is the vintage children’s wagon my father-in-law found for us some years ago?
Whose voice is missing from the motherhood debate?
Posted in ableism, feminism, feminist motherhood, indigenous australia, motherhood, motherhood sux, politics, race/anti-racism, work and family (im)balance on October 24, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Renee over at Womanist Musings has written a great post in response to a piece by Twisty from I Blame the Patriarchy, calling for mothers to stop participating in the sexism of nuclear families (the same one that I re-contemplated recently): Just raising a kid in a family is challenging the status quo for many [...]
I don’t wish to alarm any of you
Posted in home, nothing, pop culture on October 24, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Remember that particle accelerator and how people were worried that it would open up some kind of black hole on earth? Well it did, right here in my new house. Items missing, inexplicably, never to be seen again, arrrggh I can’t stand this: favourite pencil skirt ever (was wearing it just one week ago) one [...]
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