Things 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 moreOn Centring Caregivers in Disability Discourse
It’s really off-putting when a group of disabled people are trying to have a conversation and a caregiver butts in with “you’re wrong. I know, because I care for someone with such and such a disability”. This makes me squirm. Even worse are those disability organisations or charities that have only parents and caregivers on [...]
...read moreThe Hammering
I’m may end up regretting this, but I’ve come to feel that there’s really no way around it. I’ve tried to figure out how I could ignore what I’m feeling and move on to the stuff that I’d rather use this time to blog about, but it hasn’t worked. So here it is: Lately, whiteness [...]
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Bonjour!
Hello there beautiful people! My name is bint alshamsa and I’m going to be guest-blogging here at Feministe for the next two weeks. I’m not sure how to transition into a formal introduction, so I’ll just start by telling you a little about me. I was born and raised in the wonderful city of New [...]
...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 [...]
...read moreI Sing Like A Girl
Regular readers know that I am the mother of two darling boys, who I have nicknamed Mayhem and Destruction (nicknames more apt than you know) At any rate, Destruction my 7 year old is incredibly arts centered. He paints, draws, sings, dances, and has recently taken up photography. He is fluent in French and English, [...]
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Hola
Hello, my darlings. It’s Lauren, here for the weekend at Jill’s behest. Although I started this here blog a few years back, I’m most regularly found at Faux Real and occasionally blogging about politics at the mega-parenting site Offsprung with co-blogger Amanda Marcotte. I can’t believe I signed on to blog on weekends for the [...]
...read moreFluff
I’d gasp but… but…maybe we do need parenting licenses.
...read moreAdopt These Blogs
These are two of my favorite reads, one old-to-me and one new-to-me. The latter is Religious Policeman, the “diary of a Saudi man” currently living in Great Britain. For an excellent introduction to his blog, see “Dear Alhamedi,” a dissection of an advice column that tells a man what to do when his wife won’t [...]
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