In media reports on women’s issues—abortion, birth control, Planned Parenthood—men are quoted around five times more than women, a new study shows. Among 35 major national print publications, includi...
Personally, I love seeing photos of women breastfeeding while going on about their lives, and I love seeing photos that subvert the ‘good nurturing mother’ mythology. But you can probably...
Oh my god, you people are filthy. I would totally never think things like that*. *NSFW.
I think about this stuff quite a bit these days and Clem Bastow’s article in Daily Life is so sweetly optimistic: We’ve all been there: we open up too much on a date, or tell a personal story a...
PhD in Parenting has just finished a great series on non-sexist parenting, see here, here, here and here.
This is a very thoughtful interview with the brilliant Latoya Peterson of Racialicious over at Where is your line?. The whole thing is so worth a read. I base most of my activism in personal experien...
So how does Krugman cope with the hatred he attracts? “2002 to 2004 were by far the worst, and that was mostly not about economics, that was about the fact that I was pretty much alone in saying we’d...
I miss you, come home. When you live abroad, you realize that, no matter where you are, you will always be an ex-pat. There will always be a part of you that is far away from its home and is lying do...
Artworks by Richie Culver.
Here is a lovely message of solidarity from (the very crunchy) writer of Sew Liberated on that ‘Mother Wars’ thing. This is a particularly important message because Meg McElwee of Sew Lib...
At least one of our garden hens has matured enough to start laying but they’re totally free-ranging so we have had no idea where to find the eggs. As Bill said, it’s like every day is Eas...
It is so Montessori to let your children cook with you but oh my fucking gawd.. ‘what it is like to cook dinner without your kids versus with your kids’ from Adrienne Hedger over at nickm...
Just a heads up, this post is about suicide. This story in the Sydney Morning Herald is lovely. It is lovely because this man had the courage to approach strangers and intervene in this incredibly si...
This photo shoot, called Baby Boom from Steven Klein is pretty amazing because it is playing with all sorts of strongly-held ideas about how pregnancy should be represented. Klein has male model, Chr...
Behold!
We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair...
I like this ‘tinkering’ parenting stuff which is being covered here in The Wall Street Journal. The photos are especially inspiring. What’s not so inspiring is the way they still em...
The first Parents & Citizens meeting I attended at my daughter’s school I was like I will be quiet and fly under the radar and not volunteer for anything and not say anything controversial ...
A reader of my blog, who I met in Sydney recently when I came to speak on a writers’ panel, sent me this link to make me laugh about us meeting. It is adorably funny.
.. then I am going to get Chinese Government officials to badly Photoshop the wedding photos so we can look like we’re hovering.
The explosive coverage of mothering by The New York Times with “Motherhood vs. Feminism” and TIME with “Are You Mom Enough?” seemed to hit a nerve of cynicism faster than any ...
This is my favourite of the TIME breastfeeding memes. Love.
This is a wonderful guest post from a reader, Eloise. How would you describe your feminism in one sentence? When did you become a feminist? Was it before or after you became a mother? I became a femi...
I lost my very much loved copy of Carmen Giménez Smith’s Bring Down the Little Birds in Sydney, probably at the Tap Gallery. If you see it can you let me know, please?
Now it is the suburb where I drop my daughter off for a seven year old’s birthday party. Are you sure you know where to go, she asks me. Oh, I know where I’m going, I say. (This is the st...
I have always thought the way Bill and I keep our money separate (sharing the household bills between us pro-rata) was a sign of my feminist independence, but maybe it isn’t? But in my mini-sur...
This is a brilliant guest post from DV Diary, whom you can also follow on twitter @dvdiary. How would you describe your feminism in one sentence? When did you become a feminist? Was it before or afte...
Motherhood doesn’t make teen mothers poor, most of them are very poor to begin with. This is one of the reasons why shaming is not some kind of cure for poverty. (There’s still a little t...
More of the invisible work of motherhood. From here at the Huffington Post. For the uninitiated, Mommy Homework is the bane of many mothers’ lives. While perhaps intended to be an opportunity f...
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