feminism

StumbleUpon: Feminism Isn’t About Pretty Pink Paper Dolls

December 6, 2011




I like StumbleUpon. It is a great way to share and discover content on topics that interest me. If you’re not familiar with it, you can check out my guest post about StumbleUpon and how it works on Kids in the Capital. Today when I went on the site, they were promoting the “new” StumbleUpon, [...]

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Why The World Needs to Change and How To Do It

August 26, 2011




“Don’t let them tell you it can’t be done.” Those are a few of the words written by Jack Layton, New Democratic Party leader and Canada’s Leader of the Opposition, in his letter to Canadians. Jack Layton is sadly no longer with us, but we are still here. “My friends, love is better than anger. [...]

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Quotable: Being a ‘traditional’ man can be dangerous

July 24, 2011




The featured topic in the July/August 2011 issue of New Internationalist is “The changing face of masculinity.” In the first article, “Cooking up a Storm”, author Nikki Van Der Gaag shares some interesting statistics: Being a ‘traditional’ man is risky business. A national survey of adolescent males 15 to 19 in the US found that [...]

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Conferences, Conferences…

July 14, 2011




Looks like I’m entering conference season. I think I’ll be at about one conference per month from July through to November. I hope to catch up with some of you at some of the conferences that I’m attending. Women’s Worlds Women’s Worlds is a huge international feminist conference that is held in a different city [...]

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What Difference does Difference Make? An Appreciation and Review of “Equally Shared Parenting”

May 25, 2011




Today I’m happy to welcome Andrea Doucet for another guest post on my blog. In this post she is sharing her thoughts on equally shared parenting and the book on that topic by Amy Vachon and Marc Vachon. Twenty-one years ago, my life was very focused on equally shared parenting. I was a new doctoral [...]

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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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Covering Up is a Feminist Issue (Video)

February 20, 2011




Background Last year, I wrote a post called Covering Up is a Feminist Issue after seeing yet another comment from a self-proclaimed non-judgmental woman asking why women can’t just cover up when they are breastfeeding. The presumption that her comfort level should dictate how other people dress or act irked me into action. The post [...]

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