@MollyWesterman, shockingly enough. Since I use my many other social media accounts in single-focus ways, it may be nice to have one that combines librarianship, teaching, pregnancy/birth/breastfeeding, feminism, reading, etc. So, hey, are you on Twitter?
In February, I grudgingly gave in to the reality that blogging sort of requires a Facebook presence in this day and age. Kids these days. Because, back in my day grumble grumble. (Yes I am just thirty. Yes I know it’s 2011. Yes I have an inexplicably active presence on FriendFeed and Goodreads. It’s hard [...]
Facebook has never become part of my social life. I am, among other things, not the sort of person who considers with glee the possibility of long-lost friends and enemies rediscovering me and becoming my ‘friends.’ They are generally long-lost for a reason, people. But okay so I finally caved to reality and created a [...]
Our online reading group is currently reading and discussing Linda Blum’s thought-provoking book At the Breast. I know some of you have read it–stop by and tell us what you thought of it! Future readings: February: Naomi Stadlen’s What Mothers Do: Especially When it Looks Like Nothing March: Gabrielle Palmer’s The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts [...]
Welcome to First the Egg, a collection of practical information, links, and cultural criticism. This site is a feminist intervention in our rigidly-gendered culture of childbirth and parenting. It aims to provide a nonsexist space for people who want to learn, reflect, commiserate, or laugh about being pregnant, giving birth, and helping children grow up whole and happy.
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