This is Bill admirably persisting with an attempt to enjoy the sight of a glacier while the children try to ruin the moment. This is Bill giving up.
Archive for November, 2011
The art of sightseeing with children
Posted in bill, cormac, fatherhood, lauca, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, school kids, toddlers, travelling with a toddler on November 18, 2011 | 6 Comments »
We went to New Zealand
Posted in me, travelling with a toddler on November 17, 2011 | 15 Comments »
There will be some photo blogging.
All Things To All People
Posted in babies, breastfeeding, feminism, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, pop culture on November 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This fantastic piece, titled All Things To All People won a Tasmanian art award in 2008 for the artist, Kate Kelly. Asked about the photograph Kelly said: Initially it was a reaction to comments I’d heard about breastfeeding in public being offensive, apparently, which I found actually offensive. Because obviously it’s not, it’s a natural [...]
Paul Keating on asylum seekers and better politics
Posted in politics, race/anti-racism on November 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Leigh Sales of 7.30 interviewing Paul Keating (7 November 2011). LEIGH SALES: In that first answer that you gave, you were talking very much about being able to sell the public on big picture issues. I had the former Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner on the program earlier this year and he said something to the [...]
Blog recommendation
Posted in ableism, motherhood, motherhood bliss on November 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Read Angela C. Orlando’s blog because she is a mother blogger and an entertaining writer. Then, get shaken awake by her writing because unless you really know about disability you actually don’t know much at all about disability. How could the majority of us, we exclude people with disabilities from so much of the mainstream [...]
Madison Young on that whole breastfeeding controversy
Posted in babies, breastfeeding, celebrity breastmilk, feminism, motherhood, motherhood sux, pop culture, sex of the icky parental kind, sexy breastfeeding?, work and family (im)balance, yummy mummy on November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Remember this? A breastfeeding portrait of pornographer and feminist performance artist, Madison Young that led another pornographer to accuse her of exploiting and sexualising her baby? Well, Tracy Clark-Flory has just interviewed Madison Young over at Salon on the whole controversy. Why is the issue of sex and motherhood such a potent subject? People obviously [...]
Gender baby
Posted in babies, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, raising daughters, raising sons on November 8, 2011 | 9 Comments »
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Bill finally fixed these recliners he’s owned forever and now they’re completing our living room. Seeing them in there has been a strangely affirming moment – because yes, it was worth it all those years we’ve carted them about stored under houses, and yes, over time we acquired more mid-century stuff so the chairs make [...]
Wrong way! Go back!
Posted in feminism, politics on November 7, 2011 | 7 Comments »
This piece by Paul Strangio is right on the money. Labor has taken the left for granted and while this hasn’t cost them government it has cost them desperately needed public support. Last Federal election some Labor campaign organisers told me they secretly voted for the Greens. Campaign organisers live and breathe election campaigns, they [...]
“Once you start making jokes about white people, that’s a line you can’t cross”
Posted in pop culture, race/anti-racism on November 7, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Image credit. Can white people laugh at themselves? Apparently not. The Australian comedians behind Fear of a Brown Planet have not only become hugely popular with sold-out shows and rave reviews, they have also received death threats. Making jokes about racism, fine, but making jokes about white people’s racism is considered too much for some [...]
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