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Blog for Choice Day 2010: Trust Women

I’m pretty bad at planning ahead, and as usual I’m a step or two, and a day or two, behind the rest of the world (or the blogosphere, at least). So here is my belated entry to this year’s Blog for Choice Day, on the topic Trust Women:

First, go read Do you REALLY trust women? [...]

It all falls down

For the 20th time since the Boychick was born, my uterus sheds its endometrial lining. For the 20th time since the Boychick was born, it all slides down my vagina, falls between my lips, is absorbed by the cloth between my legs. I’ve talked about that before.

Here’s what I don’t talk about: all month, all [...]

New post up at “I blame the mother”

I blame American woman, who are all potentially mothers! by I, your cheating-on-you-with-another-blog-but-hey-I’m-letting-you-know-about-it bloggess.

Featuring lines such as:

nope, it’s all because American cis women of childbearing age apparently scarf narcotics, nicotine, donuts, dope, and dirty, dirty dick willy-nilly.

Reader maria raves:

this post made me seethe with rage, but also laugh. because you rule.

Go, read, laugh, seethe!

(Never fear, [...]

What timing! ACOG releases asshat statement

I do believe ACOG must stand for American College of Obtuse Gynohaters. (Other suggestions from Twitter friends: Appalling Care, Obvious Garbage; Aberrant College of Greed; American College of Oppressive Gits*. Feel free to add your own suggestions in the comments!)

Unbeknownst to me, just days before I published Just like athletics: exploring a childbirth analogy, the [...]

My letter to President Obama

Dear President Obama and Staff,

You were elected in large part on the topic of health care reform, including a public option. I voted for you in large part for health care reform, including a public option, only because there were no viable candidates that supported a single payer option, which is the only truly equitable [...]

Shame on shame: fat acceptance, fatphobia, and fitness

One common refrain of critics of fat acceptance (and the closely related philosophy of Health At Every Size) is that it discourages “getting healthy”, and encourages people to sit on their duff and scarf donuts (possibly of the baby-flavored variety) all day. According to this line of thinking, accepting fatness encourages fatness; without the prodding [...]

WFPP Guest Post: Running as Feminist Pursuit

Today’s entry to the Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer comes from a dear friend and occasional reader (if not regular commenter, *ahem*), Courtney Wilder, PhD.

This is a long entry, but well worth it. In it, Courtney first explores the ways that running serves to reify patriarchal gender norms. She then places it in an historically misogynistic context [...]

From the “oh… right…” files

4/10 I take my last thyroid pill (no refills on my script), and get my blood drawn to check my levels (yes, cutting it close; no, I shouldn’t have waited nearly so long; yes, I’ve done it before; no, I probably still won’t stop from doing it again. procrastination is a powerful habit).

4/16 I [...]

Five minutes of self care

Five minutes of self care, every day.

This is my homework.

Don’t laugh; it says so, right there, bottom third of the weekly report page for Massage Lower:
Five minutes of self care

Sunday:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:

This really shouldn’t be hard, should it? Five minutes. Every day. That’s all. Five minutes is nothing. It takes the Boychick [...]

On fat

This has been sitting in my draft queue for over a week. I don’t know why I didn’t just publish it then; I think I forgot about it, or thought it needed more clean up than it did (I only tweaked a couple tiny things; no, it’s not perfect, but I’m posting it anyway, [...]

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