Heading Toward Menopause, Still Caring About Abortion
By Andrea Plaid, cross-posted from On The Issues Magazine. I’m not an aberration because I’m a childless, employed, divorced, college-educated Black cisgender woman — regardless of what the promulgated stereotypes undergirding the media stories about women like me say. At this point in my life — I’m in my early 40s –I’m drumming my fingers [...]
...read moreMagic Genitals (Part 1: Erykah Badu)
(or: She’ll Make You Change Gods!) I am, to the untrained eye, a hippie-dippy, no-relaxer-wearing, Whole Foods shopping afro pixie faerie princess. I research traditional African spiritual practices, keep florida water and incense on hand, I bathe with Dr. Bronner’s soaps, I eat vegetables some folks have never heard of (kale, daikon radishes, red leaf [...]
...read moreThings about me which please me (and even occasionally make me proud).
The other day I wrote about things I do of which I am ashamed. This shame is based in my personal, and particular, experience with patriarchy and my understanding of feminism, and it’s real, but it’s dawned on me in the meantime that it might have been useful to note that I don’t exactly live [...]
...read moreI Don’t Have a Title For This; I’m Too Busy Being Angry
Trigger warning: sexual harassment, groping, erasure of victims/ survivors. I have two beautiful children in my life, whom I enthusiastically co-parent. I am not partnered with either parent of these children. Instead, I am called their Auntie, because calling me Miss [name redacted] is way too formal. It’s a nuanced relationship — I am an [...]
...read moreBack To School: Corporal Punishment For Students
Like any parent, now that the summer is winding down, I am excited to get my boys back to school. As much as I love the time that we have spent together, they need to get back to a routine. They are whining like any other young kid would, about the loss of freedom and [...]
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Costco and The Lil’ Monkey Doll
Who wouldn’t want to buy a Black doll named little monkey for their little girl? What better way to reinforce the idea that people of colour are less than, than by giving a child a toy that plays upon the racialized meme that we are animals. If this doll in and of itself, does not [...]
...read moreSpare The Rod
Trigger Warning Recently I have authored a few posts about spanking. This issue continues to weigh so heavily on me in part because I myself am no stranger to the belt, and because I truly believe in the right of all living beings to be free of violence. Spanking a child is a violent act [...]
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