Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer « Raising My Boychick

WFPP Guest Post: On Dressing a Daughter…and a Theoretical Son.

I’ve written before about my opinions on gender and kids’ clothing: this entry to the Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer brings in a more femme opinion from a self-identified “girly-girl” feminist.

Jenny, who recently started blogging at The Big Cheesy, talks about her feelings around dressing her daughter in frilly clothes — sometimes — and her reluctance [...]

WFPP Guest Post: The Family Poster

In this entry to the Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer, we see that sometimes the little moments and the big moments are the same thing.

When Susannah told me this story, of making her preschooler’s “family poster” and realizing it’ll be the first time he’ll really be vulnerable to homophobic bigotry — or “simple” ignorant schoolyard teasing [...]

WFPP Guest Post: Before I was a Mother, I was a Woman . . .

The Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer is back, with a piece from Zoey of Good Goog about what it means to her to be a woman and a mother.

Zoey discusses her journey from career-driven no-kids-no-thank-you woman to mostly at-home mother, and the things she has given up, as well as gained, along the way. She touches on [...]

WFPP Guest Post: Be still my feminist mama heart

This piece, by professional feminist and writer-mama Veronica, was originally posted at her personal blog Viva La Feminista. I requested to cross-post it here as part of the Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer because it’s such a perfect glimpse into a feminist parenting moment.

It’s not so much that her six year old daughter spontaneously comes out with [...]

WFPP Guest Post: We Will Braid Our Way to Revolution, Baby

Kelly Diels, of her eponymous blog, offers the following entry to the Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer on hair, and parenting biracial black girls, and hair, and love, and hair, and revolution, and hair. Because hair is (if you’ll pardon me) woven in with all those things, especially for black women and girls.

I love this piece not [...]

WFPP Guest Post: My Kid Loves a Kyriarch

The Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer has been honored with the following contribution from Ruth, who blogs at Look Left of the Pleiades and the group blog Mothers for Women’s Lib.

In this piece, Ruth discusses her experience raising a child with a white cis man who hasn’t explored his privileges and doesn’t wish to, who actively perpetuates [...]

WFPP Guest Post: Back to school: solidifying the cerebral

This entry comes from Jenn Crowell, a student, novelist, and dear friend with whom I share far too much in common.

This piece, on explaining to her young daughter the nature and importance of her work/school studies, resonates strongly with me, as I’ve dealt with similar concerns over work, school, domesticity, and trying to make sure [...]

WFPP Guest Post: Feminist parenting when you’re Not The Mama

This entry to the Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer comes from Maria, a stepmother in a noncustodial parenting situation.

She discusses the ways that she has had to accept her “last-rung” status in the collective of her stepdaughter’s parenting figures — but then, through conversations with her stepdaughter about having babies and NOT having babies, realizes that she [...]

WFPP Musical Guest Post: How Love Can Be

Allow me to introduce the Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer’s first musical guest post. This piece comes from Camille Bright-Smith of BlogInSong.

She says about this work:

This song is about the honest ordeals that parenthood creates which include questioning reality, crisis of paranoia, utter bliss, and everything in between. As Feminists or Humanists or People I think we [...]

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