I know this is going to be hard to hear. Because you are hurting. Because the crazy voices in your head (and they are of you, yes, and you are you-with-them, but they are not you) are so loud, so much louder than my quiet voice. Forgive me if I yell sometimes. I’m only trying [...]
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15 September 2009 at 1:04 am | Category: Kyriarchy, Mental Health | Tags: bipolar, chronic illness, suffering | 4 comments
Like this? Share it: What do I mean when I say “…getting sucked into attacks and defenses of individual “choices“ is not only missing the point, it is supporting the patriarchy”? It is certainly understandable when faced with the task of changing one’s whole culture all in one go to feel overwhelmed, as reader Rachel bemoans: “I think that’s what [...] 12 July 2009 at 9:00 am | Category: Attachment Parenting, Kyriarchy, Parenting, Patriarchy | Tags: breastfeeding, environmentalism, misogyny, societal pressures, suffering | 5 comments
Like this? Share it: Just in case there was any question, let me state emphatically that I am a breastfeeding supporter, a hard-core breastfeeding advocate, a lactivist (but not a “breastfeeding nazi“, please and thank you): I’m down with child-led weaning. I call nursing for 2+ years “full-term”, and anything less than that “abbreviated” or “short” or “premature weaning”, [...] 3 July 2009 at 11:59 pm | Category: Attachment Parenting, Body, Kyriarchy, Parenting, Patriarchy, Sexuality | Tags: breastfeeding, self-indulgent introspection, suffering | 58 comments
Like this? Share it: I drive away to class while he’s begging for me to take him in my arms and stay with him. I hold him down while he screams so someone can torture him with medical adhesive or blood drawing syringes. I place out of his reach really interesting toys like sharp knives and broken glass. I make him put [...] 23 January 2009 at 9:13 pm | Category: Parenting | Tags: falling short, suffering | 4 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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