As a socialist feminist parent who’s concerned about our environment, I love the commercialism that peaks around the Christmas season and encourages many of our culture’s most careless and brightly! colored! plastic! forms of gender role naturalization and gender policing. It just warms the heart, doesn’t it? There’s been lots of good writing around this theme [...]
Keva planks are among the best toys ever. We hesitated to buy them because they’re expensive and we weren’t sure whether Noah would play with them much, but we went for a 100-piece as a birthday gift this summer and are planning to get an additional 100- or 200-piece set soon because he keeps running [...]
from Molly Remer at Talk Birth, “What Really Scares Me: Social Attitudes Towards Women” Perhaps we will reach a point in the future where anything having to do with women and their messy, excess hairy, birthy, butt fatty bodies will be dealt with by professionals. Wearing skirts. from TopHat at The Bee in Your Bonnet, “When to [...]
I miss: a functioning digestive system hunger: For quite a few weeks, my only cues to eat have been 1) the clock, 2) Eric putting food in front of me, and 3) nausea / reflux-y feelings / excess saliva that are incredibly hard to read as ‘hunger’ when they feel more like ‘don’t eat! never eat again! [...]
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links for thought, December 2011 (1 of 2)
from Dinosaur Comics, just some dinosaurs discussing routine newborn eye ointment (with a tip of the hat to Rebecca at Public Health Doula) from Analía R. Stormo, Nikki A. Hawkins, Crystale Purvis Cooper, and Mona Saraiya in The Archives of Internal Medicine, “The Pelvic Exam as a Screening Tool: Practices of US Physicians“–Unfortunately, the full [...]