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Rape culture is built, one block at a time
Anyone who follows my twitter and Facebook feeds already knows that I am having a moment with Kate Elliot’s post The Problem with ‘Boys will be boys’. To say I love this post is an understatement. As she explains how three different boys approached playing blocks with her daughter, it is like getting a piece […]
Teen Mothers CAN change the world
May 29, 2013
Reblogged from Nuestra Vida, Nuestra Voz: By: Desiree Caro May is National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month. Groups could use this opportunity to educate our youth about sexual health by providing information about and promoting safer sex. Instead, the Candie’s Foundation has decided to release an ad campaign that shames teen mothers and devalues motherhood. These […]
Gwyneth Hate Watch: Hey world, why so judgey?
May 23, 2013
While I am no Gwyneth Paltrow fan, I was irritated to see a glut of angry, sexist comments about this story in which Gwyneth Paltrow shares her daily routine, including two-hour workouts. I don’t understand the ragehol about her fitness/work/family routine. Besides the mega-millions and super-stardom, her routine seems like a lot of working parents […]
The joy and the heartache of Mother’s Day
May 12, 2013
*Trigger Warning* It’s Mother’s Day and everyone’s posting pictures on social media feeds of themselves as children with their much-adored moms. It’s a sweet gesture and I hope those moms feel the love and maybe have a giggle at long-ago hairstyles and the behind-the-scenes madness it probably took to get that shot. (As a mother […]
I organized this hate crimes event because I’m a mom
April 18, 2013
Cross-posted from The Sin City Siren: Are you ready for the NOH8 in Las Vegas hate crimes event? I can’t believe it’s almost here! You can still RSVP here. And all this planning has me thinking about the first time I organized an event for Erin Davies and her “fag bug.” I spent most of […]
TMF: Spidey Sense tingling!
February 20, 2013
Now this particular TMF: Tired Marketing Fail hits closer to home than most because Andrea Shindeldecker of Oak Park, Illinois is a mom after my own heart. You see, her five-year-old daughter LOVES Spiderman! Sure, other superheroes are great and all, but Spidey is tops. Sound like another little girl you’ve heard about on this […]
The Girl Scouts: On leadership, inclusiveness, and cookies
January 31, 2013
With the news that The Boy Scouts of America is toying with ending its discriminatory policy against GBT (and presumably L) people, I can’t help but compare them to The Girl Scouts of the USA. In fairness, I must admit up front that I am an alum of the organization. But that’s not enough to […]
We need a little Christmas
December 21, 2012
In the movie Grosse Pointe Blank, there’s a conversation about the Buddhist concept of shakubuku, a philosophical argument designed to get you to challenge everything you have ever “known” to be true. A swift spiritual kick to the head that alters your reality forever. I think I’m a bit like John Cusack’s character here, “That […]
A Feminist Parent’s Gift Guide
December 14, 2012
Perhaps it is the natural out-growth of keeping an eagle-eye out for Tired Marketing Fails or it is just the nature of being a feminist parent, but I find shopping for my toddler to be the hardest of my entire holiday gift list. We do our best to give our kids an environment that is […]
Called to the principal’s office
December 2, 2012
Last week I awoke to a phone call from my daughter’s day school administrator. “Did you know that your daughter has a rash?” she said in the same curt, accusatory tone she uses at all times (or at least every time I have spoken with her). It’s 8 am and I had elected to sleep […]
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