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Dear White Lactivists, Racism is not our prop. Racism is not dead, it is not gone, it is not a thing of the past, it is not almost eradicated, it is not someone else’s problem, and it is not something we are subject to (please eliminate the phrase “reverse racism” from your vocabulary posthaste). Racism is not our [...] 16 August 2010 at 1:05 am | Category: Attachment Parenting, Body, Privilege, Race | Tags: activism, breastfeeding, racism, USA, white privilege | 26 comments
Like this? Share it: * Knitting as a method of self-soothing and to avoid the temptation to slap one’s classmates and/or teacher sort of backfires when one finds oneself contemplating the garotte potential of circular knitting needles. Ahem. * You know what one of the risk factors for atherosclerosis1 is? Burning proteins and lipids for energy. You know one of [...] 16 July 2010 at 2:28 am | Category: Fat is a feminist issue, Kyriarchy, Mental Health | Tags: ableism, bipolar, knitting, language, language privilege, school, USA | 15 comments
Like this? Share it: Black folk and hair — and more so, white folk and Black folk’s hair — is a touchy (ha. ha.) damn subject. Because of the white supremacist culture I live in1, I barely have any vocabulary for talking about Black hair, especially in its natural state. What vocabulary I do have that is appropriate and [...] 23 June 2010 at 12:47 am | Category: Parenting, Privilege, Race | Tags: language, speaking past fear, USA, white privilege | 13 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: Today I have a new piece hosted over at Annie’s engaging blog PhD in Parenting: Christmas: a time for cookies, carols, cookies, and conflicting ideals, on how The (atheist) Man and (Wiccan) I attempt to deal with the pervasiveness of both secular and religious Christmas, in which I (over?)extend a cookie metaphor: Cookies are the perfect [...] 17 December 2009 at 11:18 am | Category: Parenting, Privilege | Tags: holidays, societal pressures, USA | 3 comments
Like this? Share it: In replying to some comments on my last post, There are no solutions in the status quo, I was thinking that while heady and intellectual is good sometimes, so too are concrete examples. So here is what I would want changed to be supported by society, and what things did go/are going well: When the Boychick [...] 11 December 2009 at 2:50 am | Category: Gender, Kyriarchy, Mental Health, Parenting, Privilege | Tags: birth, breastfeeding, class privilege, family, fathers, making the revolution, postpartum, USA | 16 comments
Like this? Share it: My parents are in town (WOOHOO!), there’s all sorts of cooking to be done (let’s not even talk about the cleaning), and, as always, my mind is full with far more posts than there is ever time to write. So I’m giving myself a break. Who knows if I’ll actually take it? Last time? Not so much. [...] So, for some reason, some o’y’all seem to like my writing. Or what I have to say. Or something about this blogging thing I do, anyway. (Don’t ask me why, I dunno either; I’m still trying to figure it out.) And, this blog, for some reason, is getting a teeny, tiny bit Out There. Which is, [...] 18 November 2009 at 3:30 am | Category: Gender, Mental Health, Meta, Privilege | Tags: domesticity, gender roles, Pay Me, self-indulgent introspection, USA | 7 comments
Like this? Share it: I recently ran across a piece of child-hate (no, I’m not telling you where) that said, in part, “Sure, I think children are people, but their parents need to make sure they act like it in public! People in restaurants don’t crawl on the floor or dance between the tables!” Really? Because I’m pretty sure [...] 22 October 2009 at 1:50 am | Category: Parenting, Privilege | Tags: anti-child hate, isms, USA, violence against children | 68 comments
Like this? Share it: I was in one of those sort of surreal conversations the other day, where someone was telling me that, now that he’s two, the Boychick really should spend some time away from The Man and me, so he can “develop independence”. I tried to stutter a defense about how he has a lot of independence already, [...] 22 March 2009 at 9:57 pm | Category: Attachment Parenting, Parenting, Patriarchy | Tags: attachment theory, misogyny, societal pressures, USA | 21 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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