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‘Baby brain’ bunkum almost as annoying as PMT bunkum
blue milk | October 10th 2008 by blue milk
The idea that becoming a mother reduces your mental abilities is such a tedious notion. The notion, as defined here in a previous post, is ‘baby brain’ - “.. it makes pregnant women and new mothers struggle with complicated tasksR read more
Pesky mothers
blue milk | September 30th 2008 by blue milk
I have a guest post up at Hoyden About Town responding to an opinion piece by Rachel Funari which essentially argues that mothers are hijacking feminism. Yeah, you can imagine how I responded.. or you can read for yourself over there. read more
Bite the bullet
blue milk | September 30th 2008 by blue milk
“… what I am saying to you loud and clear today is that this Australian Government believes the time has come to bite the bullet on this and we intend to do so..” I like the sound of this phrase from the Prime Minister, I like t read more
Three year olds discuss queer politics
blue milk | September 29th 2008 by blue milk
My daughter’s best friend likes to imagine herself a boy. She has even invented a boy’s name for herself. My daughter tells her she isn’t a boy. Yes I am, her friend insists. You’re not a boy because you don’t have a pe read more
My Sarah Palin post
blue milk | September 26th 2008 by blue milk
I know a blog about feminist motherhood really can’t avoid talking about Sarah Palin forever. She claims to be a feminist, she is a mother with young children attempting to be elected to a powerful political position, and that is rare enoug read more
Pink for boys
blue milk | September 22nd 2008 by blue milk
A couple of weekends ago Lauca and I went to a lovely birthday party for a little boy. One of the mothers there, in what I can only assume was an effort to make conversation, mentioned to my Korean mother friend and I her embarrassment at having be read more
When domestic labour isn’t recognised
blue milk | September 14th 2008 by blue milk
A letter written in 1876 by an anonymous American farm woman to the editor of a suffrage magazine: Married in pioneer times a poor man, and by our joint efforts have made us a home worth several thousand dollars; have borne nine children, and took read more
Count down
blue milk | September 11th 2008 by blue milk
Voting closes very soon for the annual Blogger’s Choice Awards. This time blue milk was nominated for Best Parenting Blog and I’m pretty f’ing thrilled. I didn’t even nominate myself. If you have the desire (and the motiv read more
More homework for feminism: mothers
blue milk | September 11th 2008 by blue milk
I have been sitting on this link for a long time waiting to write something meaningful about it, but I’m not there yet and the link, it is getting older and older. So here it is, a post over at the UK’s The F Word - Sisters! Some of us a read more
Notes from the play corner of a feminist conference
blue milk | September 11th 2008 by blue milk
I went to a feminist conference recently, and while I really enjoyed it I have to say that blogs have spoilt me rotten. I will give the following caveat though. I was at the conference for only a few sessions.. I had no favours left to draw upon fo read more
Guest Post: Reflections on ‘mother work’ by a stay-at-home mo…
blue milk | August 28th 2008 by blue milk
Guest post: As many of you probably know blue milk is written by a ‘working mother’. I work part-time outside the home and being a part-timer I feel like I can relate to some of the experiences of stay-at-home mothers (SAHMs) but I̵ read more
Mother guilt as a luxury item
blue milk | August 26th 2008 by blue milk
Where are all the black mother bloggers? Or any mother bloggers apart from the white ones? Not on the big mother blogging sites, as Veronica I. Arreola points out here in a piece for Bitch magazine. I don’t read sites like Alpha Mom so I̵ read more
Lab rats
blue milk | August 20th 2008 by blue milk
I have been promising this PhD student a plug for her research for a while now. I met Aztec-rose at a film discussion I was co-facilitating on mother guilt and she was lovely and full of enthusiasm. Aztec-rose has finally jumped the ethical clearan read more
Mama PhD: Review
blue milk | August 18th 2008 by blue milk
Mama PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life is edited by Elrena Evans and Caroline Grant and is now available at Amazon. The book is also supported by a website and a blog. This is a review written by blue milk for MotherTalk. Thi read more
Honesty as a gift of generosity
blue milk | August 13th 2008 by blue milk
Tonight I took stock of the responses I’ve received to my 10 questions about your feminist motherhood (and my two responses to feminist fatherhood) and I felt, corny as it sounds, honoured. First of all, there’s a lot of them and second read more
A 2008 blogging award with 1980 graphics
blue milk | August 11th 2008 by blue milk
Awww thank you for this award dirt and rocks (a great mama academic blog, by the way, you should really check her out), and I love that the award’s graphics look like they were created in the 1980s. The graphics are just one of read more
Pro-feminist fathers
blue milk | August 8th 2008 by blue milk
Here is a first. The first pro-feminist father to tackle (and adapt) my 10 questions of feminist motherhood fatherhood. Jeremy Adam Smith also blogs at Daddy Dialectic. His response is fascinating. Go here to read it. (Jeremy is the same writer I p read more
Boy germs
blue milk | August 7th 2008 by blue milk
Lauca received her first kindergarten birthday party invitation. Veteran mothers will have to look away for a moment because the. first. kindy. friend’s. party. invitation. ever. was a very sweet moment for me. I was eeeeeee excited, and so read more
I know it will come as a shock to you mothers with male partners,…
blue milk | August 6th 2008 by blue milk
Fly My Pretty is a gorgeously reflective feminist mother and she tackled my 10 feminist motherhood questions just the other day here on her blog. Fly My Pretty, along with her female partner are mothers to twin babies (a boy and a girl, so her des read more
To PhD or not to PhD
blue milk | August 3rd 2008 by blue milk
I’ve been approached to do a PhD. It is not a done deal because this is not the first time and I declined the previous two invitations. The first invitation came just after I’d finished a Masters. At the time I wanted to leave universit read more
Things I took for granted this month
blue milk | July 31st 2008 by blue milk
That I was sufficiently prepared for our feminist mothers’ discussion as to be inclusive of everyone who could possibly show up. But I think I probably wasn’t inclusive enough of our first non-custodial mother. (Eep). That I knew read more
If I didn’t already hate Disney princesses
blue milk | July 31st 2008 by blue milk
Here is Disney feeling all warm and fuzzy about themselves - look we finally made a black princess! Of course her features are pretty similar to the white Disney princesses (equal opportunity unrealistic depictions of female beauty) and she gets read more
Reluctant blog material? The decision to blog about my child
blue milk | July 26th 2008 by blue milk
Not so long ago Quite a while ago (took an age to finish this post) I was asked about my decision to blog about my daughter. That is, the ethics of taking away some part of your child’s privacy on the Internet without their consent, or hell, wi read more
I didn’t choose to be an uptight anti-sex prude, it chose me
blue milk | July 17th 2008 by blue milk
So once again a toy manufacturer has put out a doll that has me siding with “the outraged Christian groups”. And yet I had a pretty hedonistic youth before I became a parent, and I enjoyed it, and I hope to experience a little more hed read more
I like to think of my maternity leave as The Year I Programmed So…
blue milk | July 17th 2008 by blue milk
The paid maternity leave debate is dominated by labour supply considerations - that is, parents returning to the workforce as quickly and reliably as possible. What we hear very little of in this debate is how worthwhile maternity leave (or parenta read more
Parents taking the truth serum
blue milk | July 8th 2008 by blue milk
As my partner, who can’t understand the point of blogging said when I read him this post aloud, “you would need to post about that to get it out of your system, wouldn’t you?” Yes you would, a lot can happen before nap time. read more
Feminism and falling fertility rates
blue milk | July 6th 2008 by blue milk
Whenever falling birth rate trends in the western world are discussed much energy generally goes into talking about the apparent lack of maternal desire in modern women. It is not unusual during this conversation to see falling birth rates used as read more
In praise of ’slow parenting’
blue milk | July 4th 2008 by blue milk
I know it does seem like I take rather a lot of holidays. (And this is why). Snow is beautiful, but let’s be honest, so is the sand. My friend and her children rented a place for the winter holidays at one of the most perfect (and relativel read more
A museum of motherhood
blue milk | July 2nd 2008 by blue milk
Is this mic on? OK. Helloooooooooo America. Mother writers and motherhood scholars, this one’s for you. Hit it. The motherhood foundation has established a national registry of mothers. The National Registry Of Mothers is the founding project o read more
How beautiful is this definition of feminism?
blue milk | July 1st 2008 by blue milk
“Every woman’s feminism is a love letter to her mother”. From Daphne de Marneffe, author of Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life. P.S. Great review of her book here. read more
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