In The Belly of the Beast
My daughter loves fashion. She loves fashion magazines, but we don’t have any in the house, so she reads catalogs instead. She loves shopping for clothes. She loves looking at other people’s clothes. She loves “What Not To Wear” (which I do actually let her watch, heaven help me). She loves creating outfits out of [...]
...read moreTarget Women: Brooke Shields
Sarah Haskins on Mrs. Mom-a-morphosis, who wants to help cure your un-feminine eyelashes, fyi…
...read moreWhat’s Accessible To You?
Different bodies, need different kinds of accommodation. It seems to me that many believe, a one size fits all solution, will work as far as making spaces more inclusive but in my experience, as a differently abled bodied person, I can often see where even having the limited mobility that I do, offers me a [...]
...read moreA Comparative Free Write: The Wedding Industry vs. The Baby Industry
Crossposted at My Ecdysis Lately, my thoughts have been swirling around one comparative question: What’s worse – the wedding industry or the baby industry? Recovering my 2004 journal, the year I was engaged, I see loopy sketches of my fiancée with the word “love” underneath and short poems exploring life and commitment. To describe my [...]
...read moreThe Great White Hope and Lynn Jenkins (R-Topeka)
I should really start a blog entitled dispatches from post racial America. POC are routinely told that we have come so far and that things are getting better each day. Racism is often theorized not to effect our lives to a great degree. Of course these are the pronouncements from Whiteness and their house slave [...]
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