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: 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: I’ve heard it before. I’ve said it before. I base my writing and my activism and my parenting on this fundamental truth: race affects everyone’s life. Still, when I heard it from Pam Spaulding1 in a BlogHer session, there was that moment of frisson, that “what?” that comes from my privilege, from the belief drilled into [...] 12 August 2010 at 2:18 am | Category: Privilege, Race | Tags: BlogHer, racism, white privilege | 8 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 explicitly anti-kyriarchy messages (anti-racism, anti-ableism, [...] 7 May 2010 at 3:53 pm | Category: Gender, The Boychick's Bookshelf | Tags: gender roles, identity, white privilege | 7 comments
Like this? Share it: If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve seen most of these. For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter1, I highly recommend reading the following, if you haven’t already (most are not recent posts): Feminist Parenting: Teaching History I’ve never had any thought of telling her about [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton thru rose colored glasses. Far [...] 25 January 2010 at 12:29 am | Category: Gender, Links, Parenting, Privilege, Race | Tags: intersectionality, racism, white privilege | 2 comments
Like this? Share it: Y’all know that I blame the kyriarchy — to talk only of patriarchy is to whitewash (ha ha) the myriad ways that people, including women, are variously oppressed and privileged. It pretends that all women experience oppression in the same ways, and focuses on sexism as the prime or only marginalization of women (because the [...] 22 January 2010 at 2:55 am | Category: Gender, Kyriarchy, Privilege | Tags: ableism, cis privilege, double binds, intersectionalism, isms, racism, societal pressures, white privilege | 8 comments
Like this? Share it: I’ve been pestered a few times to write a post on elimination communication (or EC), because even among the “crunchy” set, it’s pretty uncommon, and we were “successful” with the Boychick: he’s been diaper-free (by his choice) since he was 9 months old, and more or less continent and “toilet trained” since around a year [...] 9 November 2009 at 3:19 am | Category: Attachment Parenting, Kyriarchy, Privilege, Race | Tags: EC, racism, white privilege | 13 comments
Like this? Share it: “Read me this book mommy!” “This is an I Spy book, baby, it’s not really for reading. Do you want to play it?” “Yes, play it!” “OK.” He hands me the book, climbs into my lap. I settle him in, open it up. “Alright, choose a person to look for.” He points at one of the cartoon figures sitting abstractly, devoid [...] 15 October 2009 at 2:09 am | Category: Kyriarchy, Parenting, Privilege, Race | Tags: racism, white privilege | 14 comments
Like this? Share it: I first wrote this four months ago; I’m not really sure why I didn’t publish it then. I looked at it again recently, thinking it was much more draft-y and much less coherent than it turned out to be, discovered it wasn’t that bad, dusted it off, and here it is. First, let me say that [...] 27 July 2009 at 11:06 pm | Category: Gender, Parenting, Privilege, Race | Tags: cisgender privilege, identity, racism, white privilege | 5 comments
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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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