A couple weeks ago I was walking our dog and had this thought: I should get to enjoy my body without having to change it. Everyone should get to enjoy his or her body without first being required to alter it or try to alter it. Whether I want to change my body is my [...]
Here are my brief (for me …) reviews of our online book group‘s January, February, and March books, for those of you who aren’t following along at Goodreads but might still like to hear about these books/issues: Linda M. Blum’s At the Breast: Ideologies of Breastfeeding and Motherhood in the Contemporary United States This book [...]
part I: the celebration: photo by Alexander Tundakov / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 photo by Christy Scherrer / CC BY-ND 2.0 l’appagamento – satisfaction / Matteo Bagnoli / CC BY-SA 2.0 part II: the complaint: I can find absolutely lovely breastfeeding photos through a compfight search of Flickr images with Creative Commons licensing. I love these [...]
In October, my little family flew to visit my dad, his wife, my brother, and his wife. While we waited in line to go through security, we saw this image on a sign, which aimed to make travelers feel more comfortable about the full-body scan they might be asked to undergo: This image didn’t comfort [...]
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links for thought, July 2011 (1 of 2)
from Spilt Milk, “Guest Post at Feministe: Feminist Mothers” It’s one thing to be handed a cookie for breeding. It’s entirely another thing to be handed actual, concrete assistance, understanding, and genuine respect for one’s mothering and sadly the latter is too rarely in evidence at a societal level. Importantly, there are many parents who [...]