Posted in Apropos of Random, Cultivating the Hubris of the Godmakers, Deciding to Live, Homes, It's all connected, Love, Motherhood, Radical Feminists Can Sometimes Cook, The Mother, Warm Fuzzies, Witchyness, Women and Creativity, Women's Art, Women's Culture on Jan 5th, 2009
I started a new tradition for my youngest two kids, who are 10 and 13 (Jeyoani, too, and whatever other of my kids happens to be at my house :)). The night before I go back to work after the holidays, we will continue each year to do three things that we did for the first time [...]
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Posted in Being colonized, Erasure of Women's Lives, Exile, Fascist Beauty Standards, Female Ritual Servitude, Feminism, It's all connected, Male Foolishness, Male Terrorism, Motherhood, Popular Culture, Pornography, Sisterhood, War on Women, Woman Hating, Women's Birthing Rights, Women's Bodies, Women's Health, You've got to be kidding on Jan 3rd, 2009
There’s lots of good stuff on the idiotic ban of photos of breastfeeding moms at Mothers for Women’s Lib. And I LOVE her title! HA. Facebook should grow up is right.
This kind of absurdity disgusts me. The world is filled with woman-hating, murderous, horrifying pornographic imagery and that’s a-okay with most people, don’t touch the [...]
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don’t make so much
noise dear
the nurses say to the woman
three days in labor
white scum on her lips
outside the streets are hot
and flat and infinite
and time is only marked
by the dilation of pain
you’re acting like a little girl
the doctor tells her
you don’t hurt
hips like a cow
you were born to bear
his own stomach
is pegged across his thighs
like [...]
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At the centre of the earth there is a mother.
If any of us who are her children choose to die
she feels a grief like a wound deeper
than any of us can imagine.
She puts her hands to her face
like this:
her two palms open on her cheeks
Put them there like she does
Her fingers cover her eyes
She presses [...]
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The whole weight of history bears down
on the awful mother’s shoulders
Hiroshima, the Holocaust, the Inquisition
each massacre of innocents
her own childhood
and the childhood of her mother
and the childhood of her child.
What can she do?
She remembers.
The child’s drawing, the lost
mittens, the child
cold, the awful mother shouting
the child’s story of shadows
in her room, the child waiting
the awful mother
waiting, [...]
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Some good news about Holly Collins and her children:
Yesterday, Holly Collins returned to Minneapolis to answer the charges against her for fleeing the country 14 years ago to keep her children safe.
The District Attorney dismissed the felony charge of custodial interference. Instead, Holly pled guilty to contempt of court. As Holly said later in an [...]
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