Gender Issues

“Do you like you?”

April 18, 2011




“Do you like me?” she asks, showing off her new dress and necklace and smiling at herself in the mirror. Of course I do. My answer to that question is always positive. You look lovely. That dress makes your eyes sparkle. You look like a flower. But also, I ask, “Do you like yourself?“. Yes, [...]

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Feminism and Fathers

April 7, 2011




My regular readers will know that I believe feminist mothering, in a heterosexual relationship, is not possible without a father who is an equal partner in parenting. The way that looks may differ from one family to the next, but ultimately our society’s assumption that mothers are “the” important parent and that fathers do not [...]

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What revolution? Why haven’t women pushed harder for caring work to be valued?

March 30, 2011




When I first got involved in blogging in the Spring of 2008 (coming up on 3 years), I started looking for other attachment parenting and feminist mothering blogs. The first feminist mothering blog that I came across and one that still holds a prominent place in my RSS reader today is blue milk. When I [...]

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Islamic Children’s Books

March 15, 2011




This is March, which for me means I am working 12 to 14 hour days. It is part of my balance over time, not every day philosophy and reality. That means that I don’t have as much time to blog, but don’t fret! I have several amazing guest bloggers lined up this month and will [...]

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Se couvrir : un enjeu féministe

March 8, 2011




First in English, then in Spanish, and now in French! (en français).  Many thanks to reader Catherine Leclerc for the translation from English into French. I’ve personally spent a lot of time in Quebec and France as a breastfeeding mother. In France, I always felt like I stood out and was being stared at when I [...]

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CUBRIRSE: Es una cuestión feminista

March 3, 2011




Last week I released a video that I produced called Covering Up is a Feminist Issue and gave other bloggers permission to share the video on their blogs. One of the bloggers who shared it is Saray. On her blog, Mothers Utopia, she put up both English and Spanish posts about the video. That gave [...]

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Why always the mother?

February 12, 2011




Researchers evidently think mothers are significantly more important than fathers. Perhaps I should be flattered, but I’m not. I’m annoyed at the amount of blame that gets explicitly and implicitly put on mothers and I’m annoyed at the way fathers are dismissed as insignificant influences on their children’s lives. In a post last week, I [...]

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Canadian women: We’re fat, our kids are fat, and we’re letting other people raise our children

February 4, 2011




Today’s news stories come with a heavy dose of woman and mother-blame. Canadian women getting fatter, and fast…: In the Ottawa Citizen, Sharon Kirkey reported that Canadian women are becoming overweight faster than almost any other women in the high-income world. At least this article ended with a couple of suggestions on tackling structural issues [...]

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Share The Important Things

February 1, 2011




We’ve been practicing our own brand of equally shared parenting since before Amy and Marc Vachon started their Equally Shared Parenting blog and wrote their Equally Shared Parenting book. While Amy and Marc’s approach emphasizes the importance of sharing every task, from earning money, to doing the laundry, to feeding the baby, our approach has [...]

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Dear Daughter

January 23, 2011




I’ve written a fair bit on this blog about the things I want to teach my children about sex, love, tolerance, religion, death, war, history, food, consumerism, feminism, empathy and more. So often it seems they are so busy being kids that they don’t have the time or the interest in listening. I try to [...]

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