Pussyhats and Photos from the Women’s March
What a thing, the Women’s Marches, eh? What a day. What a force. What a feeling. (My photos from the Vancouver march are below.) I first learned about the Pussyhat Project right after it launched in […]
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My Take on a Crocheted Pussyhat
—Updated 1/13 to add a video on how the hat is constructed (see below!)And again on 1/19 to add a troubleshooting video. And this link. Perhaps you’ve heard about the Women’s March on Washington on […]
Lego for Boys, Lego for Girls: A Lego Friends Thing
The night we spent in the maternity ward nearly five years ago with our tiny, tiny son, we sat on the bed with that bundled-up baby in our arms and wondered aloud, now that we were, for […]
Monday Morning Mind Dump
I feel like this is the first week of the rest of my life. Funny how I only vaguely realized that the book tour took up so much space in my brain for pretty much […]
The Feminist Factor: Yet More on Homeward Bound, by Emily Matchar
I want Homeward Bound, Emily Matchar’s book about what she calls the new domesticity, to become the feminist rallying point of the under-40 generations. I want it to light a fire under the asses of women. I […]
I’m an unnatural mother.
I almost wrote the title of this post as, “I’m an unnatural parent,” but then I remembered it’s my sex that’s contributing most to my feeling that I need to write about this. So mother it […]
Don’t call me MOMMY at work.
Last week I received an email from a woman. You are missing one of your important jobs on the list in your blog blurb. Mommy! Ya gotta ad [sic] that because it’s the most important […]
Let’s Talk About Science, Theism, Feminism and Boobquake
Last week a woman in Indiana shot off a quick blog post in response to a report in the Chicago Tribune about an Iranian Muslim cleric who said immodestly dressed women corrupt young men and […]
On Being a Feminist Around Business People
When I was working full-time in yarn, one of my primary motivators was to be a good feminist. In addition to having the opportunity to talk to people of all sorts about creativity and craft, […]
