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Breastfeeding mama with very sharp knife image from here.

Some links I’ve been loving, sometimes on twitter but sometimes not:

Mira Ptacin with an incredibly beautifully written but quietly shattering piece on her late term abortion at Guernica.

Ta-Nehisi Coates and his beautifully argued piece on why he is pro-choice at The Atlantic.

Rhiana Maidenberg on her children’s transgender nanny at Huffington Post.

Rania Khalek on what became of that black mother charged for sending her child to the wrong school at AlterNet.

Philippa Willitts with the wrongful collapsing of child sexual abuse into ‘adult romance’ at The F Word.

Introducing awesome new tumblr, Small Town Grrrls by two young feminists for others who live in small, conservative places.

Heath Aston with how something fishy is happening to International Women’s Day in NSW, Australia in The Sydney Morning Herald.

Dan Nolan on suddenly being able to see misogyny everywhere in The King’s Tribune.

Sarah Hoffman with a fantastic list of recommended feminist reading for children of all ages at On parenting a boy who is different.

Margot Magowan with more recommended feminist books for children at Reel Girl.

The very clever Judith Warner and why American kids are brats at Time.

Dean Spade on being gender queer in a professional, gender normative work environment at every tumblr everywhere, it seems.

What happened in a laundromat at Jessica Valenti’s tumblr.

A very well observed post on the morning rush for a PhD student with a toddler at Balancing Jane.

Gay marines and their very romantic homecoming kiss on QUEERTY.

Alexis Madrigal with How do you cite a tweet in an academic paper? at The Atlantic.

An amazing letter from a former slave to a white man asking him to return to work at guerrilla mama medicine.

Michelle Tarno on having her son mistaken for a girl in Made in Italy.

Bittersweet writing on neighborhood kids from writing as jo(e). And then this photo of hers, too.

19 things that school children are being arrested for in America at STFU, Conservatives.

One of the funniest things ever said before having sex, at Clem Bistro’s tumblr.

A wonderfully joyful photo of a mother and child at Marvelous Kiddo.

More beautiful poetry from writing mama, Penni Russon at eglantine’s cake.

Sitting like girls in comic books at ladamania.

Gorgeous semi-naked Frida Kahlo, just because, at guerrilla mama medicine.

A semi-naked young man with a cat and a messy living room, also just because, at cute boys with cats.

See a very, very cute thing at A Clever Assemblage of Cliches.