facebook

Why SEEING breastfeeding on Facebook, and in real life, is important (Guest Post)

February 3, 2012




I’m heading in the direction of slightly warmer weather this week and will be bringing you a few guest posts from authors and activists whose voices and work I adore. First up is breastfeeding advocate Emma Kwasnica talking about the continued harassment of breastfeeding women by facebook staff (which I first wrote about more than [...]

Share|
Read the full article →

Breastfeeding on Children’s Television

February 7, 2009




This is the first in what I hope will be a series of posts on where we got off track. By that I mean where society has gone in the wrong direction in terms of our child rearing practices, with potentially detrimental effects on our children and society in general. I support the rights of [...]

Share|
Read the full article →

One step forward, two steps back

January 7, 2009




Back in October, I participated in the Breastfeeding Challenge for the 3rd time. This wonderful event is organized raise awareness about breastfeeding and to make mothers more confident breastfeeding in public. Emma Kwasnica of Montreal also participated in the challenge while tandem nursing her two children and was shown in an article on the challenge [...]

Share|
Read the full article →

Breaking it down for facebook

December 30, 2008




Let’s start with a bit of history. Back in June 2007, a facebook group was created called “Hey facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene (Official petition to facebook)” after Kelli Roman (see Time interview with Kelli) had breastfeeding pictures removed from the site. The membership of the group grew exponentially, reaching 6,000 members by August 2007, [...]

Share|
Read the full article →

December 27: Change your facebook profile picture to a breastfeeding picture

December 26, 2008




For one day on December 27, mothers around the world are changing their profile pictures to breastfeeding pictures to protest facebook deleting breastfeeding pictures and threatening to delete the accounts of the people that post them: Facebook continues to classify breastfeeding photos as obscene content. They continue to arbitrarily remove these photos from member albums [...]

Share|
Related Posts with Thumbnails
Read the full article →