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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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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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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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Non-sexist holiday shopping: Is it possible?

November 30, 2010




A while ago, I shared the post Have Yourself a Very Sexist Holiday by Melissa from Pigtail Pals on my facebook page. One of my readers wrote to me after reading the post and asked for my experience buying gifts for my daughter and my thoughts or recommendations for gift shopping for girls. I am [...]

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Let's throw the assumptions out with the bathwater

November 21, 2010




I'm late to the party, I know. It is a party I didn't want to attend. I read Erica Jong's essay in the Wall Street Journal on the Madness of Motherhood and I yawned. Ho hum. She isn't saying anything that Hanna Rosin, Margaret Wente, and plenty of others haven't already said. She sounds like [...]

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Unsilent

November 2, 2010




Yesterday a lot of people on twitter and facebook vowed to be silent for 24 hours as part of Communication Shutdown, a global fundraiser for autism. I'm not entirely sure if the intent was to raise money (paying for people to shut up?) or to raise awareness (by someone's conspicuous absence?) but I do wonder [...]

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