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Comfy world
One of Bean’s games is to construct a pillow fort of sorts; a pile of soft furnishings and fluffy toys on which to luxuriate conspicuously. She dubs this created space Comfy World, the declaration of...
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Sleep to dream
Having a baby can be a bit like falling in love; it can be quite unlike it, too. But that is a post for another time. When Bean was a baby I spent a lot of time pacing and singing. She (and, okay, I)...
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Mothers’ Day mourning
Mothers’ Day tastes of grief, to me. I went to a teeny rural school. The other kids came from conservative families, traditional, married parents in stereotypical gender roles. My family was likewise...
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Queer mothering in a straight world: AMIRCI Conference Paper
This weekend I was lucky enough to attend (some of) the AMIRCI conference on Feminist Futures (parenting and work commitments meant I didn’t get to be there for the whole three days.) I delivered a...
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Please, won’t somebody think of the children?
In recent months I’ve seen same-sex marriage described variously as: a niche issue; a darling of conservative governments and therefore the enemy of radical queers everywhere; a sure-thing within a...
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Love story
I write a lot about love. I believe fervently in the centrality of love; what is mothering, but the work of love? What is feminism but a life ethic — a love ethic? What is grief but a leaking out of...
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I like my body when it is with your body
My lover says I am tiny. She is tall, so even with my not too scrappy 5′ 7″ and my somewhere-around-120 kgs, she can make me feel little. We discovered this the first time we made love; her hand here...
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Parenting through obesity panic
Will I look like you when I grow up mama? Maybe, I say, steeling myself. Good! she says, skipping out of my arms. Relieved, I catch her back and squish her tight against my ample chest. *** One day my...
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Cherchez la femme — Feminism and Birth
I have often noted that the other side of the reproductive rights coin (that is, the right to birth and pregnancy care, breastfeeding support, and mother-centred maternity care in general) is largely...
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We should be talking about breastfeeding, in public
The blog post I wanted to write yesterday in response to the latest ‘breastfeeding debate’ wasn’t about whether people should breastfeed discreetly in public, it wasn’t about whether we need more...
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