Birth ur doin it rong

Filed under: consumers' rights, just for fun, surgical monopoly

I hope that you remember to sew on a sequin over this weekend of mixed feelings. Gratuitous exhortations of cheeriness

Filed under: just for fun

Friday past, HaT had a section on Claudia Alexander because they’d obviously been watching the same tv show as me and been struck by the same scientist appearing in it too. To whit: I saw this marvelously enthused woman on my television last night as one of the experts on the Voyage to the Planets [...]

Tags: gloria lemay
Filed under: feminism, just for fun

You’re needed in the world but you’re also really needed by the Carnival of Feminist Parenting! It’s so vital that we keep firming the links between the feminisms and all the things women do. If you blog, parent and call yourself a feminist, let’s meet you and your work soon! Try us on Wibiya! WAU_tab(‘hcenpkn36luf’, [...]

Tags: breastfeeding, normal mothering, parenting, radical mothering
Filed under: feminism, just for fun, parenting

Welcome to the May Carnival of Natural Parenting: Role model This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Carnival of Natural Parenting hosted by Code Name: Mama and Hobo Mama. This month our participants have waxed poetic about how their parenting has inspired others, or how others have inspired them. Please read to the [...]

Tags: inspiration, rest
Filed under: consumers, consumers' rights, just for fun, parenting

Weep as you read about VBAC in the US (and not too far off what it’s like here) Childbirth without choice It would seem perfectly natural that a woman could give birth naturally if she wants to. Guess what? She can’t. An increasing number of hospitals in this country are refusing to offer women the [...]

Tags: breastfeeding, land of the free home of the surgically incapacitated, more humourless feminism, vbac
Filed under: consumers, consumers' rights, just for fun, reproductive justice, surgical monopoly

Meet Emily Burns, PhD student at the University of Western Sydney’s Centre for Cultural Research. Looks like a great thesis in the making and sorely needed! Good luck, Emily! This post is to ask if anyone here would be willing to participate in my PhD project on home birth and free birth experiences in Australia. [...]

Tags: birth attendants, freebirth, homebirth, research
Filed under: homebirth, just for fun, who homebirths?

Head over to The Angry Black Woman to read a huge link fest on reproductive justice. Wow. Just wow. Further wowing to be had from Helen Razer who offered us some great tips on Vajazzling in time for International Women’s Day. Oh and a slamming for some playwright or other, whose work I once enjoyed. [...]

Tags: commentary that bites, feminism, helen razer, human rights, misinformation campaign, more humourless feminism, personhood of the foetus, reproductive freedom, vajazzling
Filed under: consumers, consumers' rights, feminism, just for fun, reproductive justice

I’ve been away in Adelaide attending the JB annual festival gathering. What a hoot! From henna and placenta talk to circus acts with participation, great food, wonderful women, lovely families, a chance to reconnect with other homebirthers working through what it’s like to be facing potential criminalisation, well it was just beautiful! I look forward [...]

Filed under: homebirth, homebirth campaign, just for fun