Welcome to The Boychick’s Bookshelf! In this series, I review children’s books of interest to those who want to raise children free from and opposed to kyriarchy. These reviews will focus on books which showcase stories and lives beyond the dominant culture of white straight middle-class families, or which contain [...]
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21 August 2010 at 2:12 am | Category: Gender, The Boychick's Bookshelf | Tags: feminists don't laugh, gender roles, white privilege | 47 comments
Like this? Share it: Welcome to RMB’s Naked Pictures of Faceless People, a series of guest posts from diverse anonymous bloggers. (Read more about NPFP’s origins.) These are the posts that are jumping to get out of us, but for whatever reason — safety, embarrassment, conflict of interest, protection of loved ones’ reputations or feelings, or so on [...] 9 August 2010 at 9:54 pm | Category: Gender, Parenting, Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer | Tags: birth, postpartum, pregnancy, violence against women | 16 comments
Like this? Share it: “A mother shouldn’t leave her child until about the age of three”, declares a father. Oh, I do not think so. What infants and toddlers and preschoolers need is attachment — loving, responsive care from people they know and trust, preferably have known for most or all of their lives but at least with whom they have [...] 18 July 2010 at 2:31 am | Category: Attachment Parenting, Fathering, Gender, Kyriarchy | Tags: alloparents, attachment theory, breastfeeding, misogyny | 59 comments
Like this? Share it: I have no desire or intention to police others’ bodies. We can talk about the social pressures that lead to high rates of cosmetic surgery, dieting, body hatred — but to confuse a need for systemic critique with a right to criticize individuals is one of the worst uses of feminism. But. And. So. How we talk about our [...] 14 July 2010 at 2:37 pm | Category: Body, Fat is a feminist issue, Gender, Kyriarchy | Tags: excuses, language, misogyny | 29 comments
Like this? Share it: How to lose my business in one easy step (today’s lesson thanks to Vistaprint) It’s ridiculously easy, really. All you have to do is have a required drop down menu on your sign up form, with no opt out or Other or fill-in-the-blank option, with these three and only these three options: Mr. (bonus douchebaggery points for making [...] 8 July 2010 at 1:55 am | Category: Gender, Kyriarchy | Tags: BlogHer, breastfeeding, FAIL, language, misogyny, pictures | 19 comments
Like this? Share it: Sex ed is not something we do once. It’s not something we talk about “when they’re old enough“. It’s really not something to leave exclusively to schools, or chance, or experiential learning. Sex ed is every day. Sex ed is teaching children, of any age, that their bodies are their own; it is making sure they know [...] Welcome to RMB’s Naked Pictures of Faceless People, a series of guest posts from diverse anonymous bloggers. (Read more about NPFP’s origins.) These are the posts that are jumping to get out of us, but for whatever reason — safety, embarrassment, conflict of interest, protection of loved ones’ reputations or feelings, or so on [...] 22 June 2010 at 1:43 am | Category: Body, Gender, Mental Health, Parenting | Tags: abortion, relationships | 13 comments
Like this? Share it: We bought a car today. And that’s not the awesome thing. (Though it is fucking awesome: WE BOUGHT A CAR1. After driving our former sedan into the ground — had her for 10 years and 200,000 miles, yo, and only just starting to show her age — we finally have a car with five functioning seatbelts, [...] 19 June 2010 at 1:06 am | Category: Gender | Tags: boundaries, kicking kyriarchy in the khakis | 19 comments
Like this? Share it: Welcome to The Boychick’s Bookshelf! In this series, I review children’s books of interest to parents who want to raise children free from and opposed to kyriarchy. These reviews will focus on books which showcase stories and lives beyond the dominant culture of white straight middle-class families, or which contain [...] 16 June 2010 at 12:37 am | Category: Gender, Race, The Boychick's Bookshelf | Tags: intersectionalism, misogyny, racism, slavery, USA | 1 comment
Like this? Share it: First, the good news: Tiwonge and Steven have been pardoned! (Warning on link for misgendering.) Although psychological violence continues to be done to Tiwonge via misgendering, and their life is likely to continue to be hard, I am glad that these two are being spared, and I wish them well. Now to my topic, which is [...] 31 May 2010 at 1:40 am | Category: Gender, Privilege, Sexuality | Tags: bisexuality, language, straight privilege, trans, transmisogyny | 19 comments
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Arwyn
In my bathroom hangs a plaque with a picture of a yin yang and the word BALANCE. I can never get it to hang straight. This probably says something deep and meaningful about my life.
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