The kitchen sink, and a further call for submissions

In which I toss everything I don’t have another place for at the moment.

You may have noticed a decline in the post rate: it’s not that I’ve not been writing, it’s rather that the writing has all be going into the (now, much easier to navigate!) Glossary. Check it out, it’s way prettier and easier to use.

Definitions that have been added (some single lines, many with full bloviation exposition):

• alloparents/allomothers
• charting
• kyriarchy
• POC
• PWD
• TAB
• woman-centric
• zie/hir

I especially recommend making sure you check out the entries for alloparents/allomothers, kyiarchy, and woman-centric.

And speaking of those things, the Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer is going great: I have another amazing entry slotted for later this week (on stepparenting, family planning, and raising a girl child with perspective), and I’ve been honored by all the guest posts so far. But, I can’t help noticing that they are all from male-partnered white cis women. I would dearly love for the Primer to have some of that perspective this week’s entry speaks so highly of. For that, I need your help: spread the word, submit a post, spread the word, encourage a blogger you admire to submit something, spread the word, nominate a post you love from another blog, and did I mention spread the word?

I’m also especially looking for pieces that address the intersection of “the personal and the political”, or that espouse the idea of “think global, act local”. Have you taken your child to protests, rallies, nurse-ins? How has your motherhood and your womanism/feminism changed the way you perceive or act in the world? Have you gotten more (or less) involved in politics? Have you become more environmentally aware due to the effects pollution have on other women and their children? I would love to hear about it.

But don’t worry, I have my own Grade A Quality Feminist Content coming down the line as well. Those of you following me on Twitter (from which I am attempting to step back a little, as I reevaluate my online and nonpixilated priorities) have already gotten a preview of a post on childbirth. And I might even have a little something called the I Blame the Kyriarchy: The Drinking Game in store for y’all’s blaming and binging pleasure.

So stay tuned, tour the glossary, and send me something for the Primer (yes, even if you’re a straight white cis woman and your idea of political action is voting once every 4-8 years — I still want to hear from you).

Got anything you’d like to toss in the sink while I’m here doing the dishes?