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
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
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
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
What little hope we have of reimagining a world in which girls and women can safely exist lies in obliterating this one. … Read More Burning it to the Ground
In our art, in our lives, being white means never having to say you’re sorry.
We will unearth the apology from the debris and mess of your history and your context and all of the societal factors that brought you to this moment.… Read More Redemption Songs
A lot of my life is spent on tomorrows. For one, I am a mother. I am engaged in the daily awesome task of raising children whom I know (I hope?) will help remake this world in their own breathtaking image. For another, I am a development worker. I don’t really know how to define… Read More Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
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