We are asking caregivers of all kinds – within and outside the home – to carry our children. Our children are the future, they are the world. Why, then, are we content to watch the people who watch over them burn out so completely? … Read More A Wild Patience: South Africa’s Early Childhood Care and Education practitioners
It’s been 12 years since that dramatic exit. I am back. Of course, I came back. I’ve been back for almost 10 years, in fact. My so-called sabbatical and reentry taught me a few things that I have tried to hold on to for the sake of my sanity and the sector.… Read More An Education
Reader, it may shock you to discover that I am not an observant Catholic – or Christian or anything else. My deepest faith is in human beings and my devotion is to doing what I can to make the world better for my fellow flawed flock. That might seem lacking in piety or gravity, but, again. Take a look around. It takes guts to love humanity in this world. It’s brave to see all the darkness and insist that the light is down here, within reach, not in a cloister in the Vatican, on ballots of men.… Read More New emperor, old cassock
And, look. Comedy is in the ear of the beholder, or whatever. But I can’t help but wonder if some of the negative reviews are in response to seeing women take on roles and archetypal behaviours that we associate strongly with men. … Read More Girl Boss
The chaos of being a woman is constant. The COVID pandemic and all the ways in which it rearranged and redefined the work of women and mothers might be the source of the current disorder. MomTok and DCC might offer a subset of young women whose lives were especially jostled by the pandemic relative safe harbour and the tools to navigate the ever-increasing pressures of post-COVID existence.… Read More Notes on MomTok and Cowgirls*
As a country, we have seemingly given over custody of our youth to the forces of civil society. Those forces, as well-intentioned as many of them are, do not always operate with the well-being and care of these young people at the front of their minds. They do rely heavily on young people and the energy and passion and renewal they herald in order to push their particular agendas.… Read More Our Children’s Keepers
Society wants piety and quiet devotion, and for me to be content with a month of platitudes. They don’t want to hear about the yawning gaps in our social welfare and security systems. They especially don’t want to talk about actually compensating the unpaid labour of pregnancy. They don’t want to hear about the links between motherhood and long-term adverse health outcomes for women. They don’t want to hear about what it means to be poor and hungry, and raising children.… Read More Making Right AKA call your mother
In the end, the people who live with the fear and the pain are the ones who never forget, even as they are shot to death by Hamas fighters, or bombarded by the Israeli Defence Forces. Those of us, from far away, who think suffering in any form, visited upon any body, is ever justifiable or acceptable as mere political cost, are the ones who need to be reminded.… Read More Unfolding
Sarah Menkedick writes that “[m]othering, radically defined, is the glad gifting of one’s talents, ideas, intellect, and creativity to the universe without recompense.” We refuse to allow obstetric violence to diminish that gift, the gladness with which it is given and the better world it will birth.… Read More Roses are Red
men who hate women are not clever. They are nothing special. They cannot find their own way in the world and, instead, use their destructive energy against people who are the exact opposite. It’s time we examined the weaknesses in our communities that allow them to get away with that, time and again.… Read More The Truth of True Crime
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