parenting
Family Matters: “Good Talk” Offers a Panacea for the Worst of Times
For a country obsessed with the national “conversation about race,” Mira Jacob’s graphic memoir, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, offers an illustration of all the ways it can go right—and wrong.
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Conditions of Consent: Teaching Children Bodily Autonomy
These instances are about our collective avoidance of consent and the rape culture.
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Talking With Kids About Open Relationships: Margaret Jacobsen Walks Us through Being Honest and Open
Margaret Jacobsen writes beautifully on a bunch of different difficult topics.
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“Maid” and the Resurgence of Hardship Memoirs
Stephanie Land doesn’t frame her story as an inspiring tale of bootstrapping, a blueprint for others, or evidence that grit and determination are all it takes to escape poverty.
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Undecided: The Reliable Romanticizing of Unplanned Parenthood
The temptation to chalk our decisions up to the whims of some larger, intangible force—God, evolution, DNA, nature, life—is a powerful one.
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On Our Radar—Feminist News Roundup: The All-White Cast of Bojack Horseman
*extreme side-eye*
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Dear Kanye West: North and Chicago Are Not Your Karma
People call down girl children like plagues.
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Plot Twist: TV’s Surprise-Pregnancy Problem
Pregnancy has become a looming onscreen threat that could suddenly befall any woman.
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Popaganda: Birth of the New
End of the world getting you down? We may never truly know what the future holds, and to some of us, the looming threat of an apocalypse is the most effective birth control. In this episode of Popaganda, Soleil digs into parenting and the end of the world: whether that means a total lifestyle... Read more »
Ask Auntie Randa: on "The Simpsons" and handling your family's fatphobia
Auntie Randa’s take on The Simpsons as refugees and confronting your family’s fatphobia.
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