I don’t breastfeed.

Note: if you don’t want to hear me talking about breasts and vaginas, you might want to opt out now.
Note the Second: I wrote this a long time ago and am posting it now because: a) I haven’t posted anything in a long time, and b) I feel like it.
It never occurred to me to [...]

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Customers, Consumers

Tell me this: when did I turn into one of those people who considers college students to be consumers and sees her job as providing exceptional customer service?
Probably since I moved from the classroom to administration. I used to grandstand about the life of the mind and goods and services and commodity culture and all [...]

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Banished. Again.

So now that Wizard has successfully defended his dissertation (I wrote “situation” originally.  Am I alone in finding this hilarious?), and is a DOCTOR, but not the kind that makes a lot of $$$, we’ve been trying this thing where as soon as he gets home from work I pass him The Baby, and he [...]

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Revenge of the Childfree

I wish my dissertation were still of feminist interest and import, because what I think (and subsequently blog) about often has to do with feminist-ish topics.  So what I’m saying is that this would still be a diss blog, sort of, if my diss were on something else, something more central to my everyday thinking.  [...]

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How to Write a Dissertation after Having a Baby

I don’t know how to write a dissertation after having a baby.  I truly don’t.  But I titled the post as such to lure here those of my ilk, the other parents and caregivers of children who have dissertations to write and babies to raise.
See, every once in a while I google that phrase above, [...]

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Degrassi, eh?

How long has it been since I’ve discussed something of or related to pop culture?  What’s that?  Never, you say?  Unpossible!  My world is a Pop Carnivale if you consider the amount of reality tv I consume daily.  If it’s on Bravo, I watch it.  MTV, usually.  TLC, sometimes, if it’s Toddlers and Tiaras or [...]

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Dispatches from Childbirth Class

I haven’t taken any kinds of classes in about three years, which is probably a lot less than most of the other people in my “weekend intensive” childbirth education class.  This is the class designed for people who can’t manage the normal course of four weekly classes, which means it’s meant for “professionals,” not grad [...]

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What I was trying to say before.

I admit to being cryptic in that last post, but not by design. It was more of a cryptic-by-exhaustion sort of thing.
I’m stuck in a state of perpetual in-between-ness. Looking back at the beginnings of this blog, I realized that when I started, on June 26th,I was just about a month away from finding [...]

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Who’s afraid of her childfree friend?

Her childfree friend, her childfree friend?  Who’s afraid of her childfree friend?
Me. Me. Me.
Lemme explain.  I have a friend who is avowedly Childfree, which is not just an idea but a movement.  I’d say it’s the exact opposite of Quiverfull except that it’s not.  While Quiverfull folks seem to limit their notion of what a [...]

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Wolf Blitzer: Fetishizing Children Since 2008

I was passively absorbing The Situation Room yesterday when I was caught off guard by Wolf Blitzer’s intro to a story on the Obama girls.   He was describing a story about “the changes in store for those adorable little Barack Obama children.”  Most of the squishy emphasis was on “adorable” and “little,” so it [...]

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