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Baby’s first dress

April 28, 2011 by Jessica 1 Comment

Well, she’s been out about as long as she was in, and it’s gotten pretty warm here in the D.C. area. So I went ahead and put my almost-nine-month-old girl in a dress. For the first time. When my son had taken it out of the box sent by my mom a few weeks back,…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: body, body image, fashion, feminism, gender, seasons

Birth activists to hold conference and rally

April 8, 2011 by Jessica 2 Comments

“Midwifery and Homeopathy” was the subject of a weekend workshop I attended last year at a conference sponsored by the National Center for Homeopathy. The information I gleaned from presenter MJ Hanafin, and later from an interview with Miranda Castro, author of Homeopathy for Pregnancy, Birth and Your Baby’s First Years, put me on the…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, feminism, Ina May Gaskin, maternal mortality, pregnancy, women's health

Hirshhorn nurse-in a huge success!

February 14, 2011 by Jessica Leave a Comment

At least I got in some lactivism this weekend! It has been a long string of days with a dramatic, exuberant, clingy, whiny and non-stop-talking almost-five-year-old and a not-much-sleeping, perennially-teething (but happy!) six-month old. So I will save the full report on yesterday’s nurse-in at the Hirshhorn Museum for another time (will link if it…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: activism, breastfeeding, community, feminism

NWSA panel addresses pregnant women and feminism

November 16, 2010 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I was thrilled to learn that my friend Jessica Clements, birth artist and organizer of last October’s “Perinatal” symposium on birth practices and reproductive rights, was part of a panel  this past weekend on “Pregnant Women: The Outsiders in the Women’s Rights Discourse” in Denver at the Annual Conference of the National Women’s Studies Association: …

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Holistic Health, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, feminism, Jessica Clements, National Women's Studies Association, Perinatal, pregnancy

More sad news about anti-gay bullying

November 12, 2010 by Jessica 2 Comments

Although I mostly think Erica Jong was wrong-headed in her Wall Street Journal piece last week where she said attachment parenting keeps women in a prison and out of politics (see my response and other links here), I do have to admit that, in choosing to stay home with my children, I am not out…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Uncategorized Tagged With: Brandon Bitner, feminism, gender, GLSEN, GroundSpark, harassment, sexual orientation, suicide

On the bookshelf… Women and power

October 13, 2010 by Jessica 1 Comment

A few weeks ago, I went to a wonderful event with Gloria Feldt. She is one inspiring woman! Once a teen mom, Gloria went on to raise three children and to work for 30 years for Planned Parenthood, serving as its national president until 2005. I’ve only made a dent into her book so far…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Uncategorized Tagged With: feminism, politics

Performance workshop for cesarean and VBAC mamas

September 20, 2010 by Jessica Leave a Comment

A year ago, at the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage weekend, I saw a staged reading of Karen Brody’s play Michelle Obama: Taskmaster.  Now the author of Birth: The Play is holding what sounds like an amazing workshop for moms who have had cesarean sections and VBACs. If I didn’t have a newborn and live…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, D.C. Metro, Holistic Health, The Arts, Uncategorized Tagged With: birth, body, body image, community, feminism

The clothes make the man, but do they make the baby?

September 10, 2010 by Jessica 4 Comments

I don’t understand why people get so defensive when strangers make the wrong assumption about their baby’s gender. Who cares what other people think? Why is it an insult either way? I’ve heard lots of people complain about ignorant commenters, “I mean, she had bows in her hair. She was wearing pink!” Or “He had…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Uncategorized Tagged With: feminism, politics

Art as birth activism

October 10, 2009 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I’ve known artist Jessica Clements for a while, but it was a thrill this week to attend the symposium she organized and to see her MFA thesis exhibit of birth paintings on the campus of George Mason University, right in the middle of the Johnson Student Center. Talk about bringing art and activism to the…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, The Arts Tagged With: art, body, feminism, media, working mother

Smacked in the Facebook

October 23, 2008 by Jessica Leave a Comment

I’ve just recently lost my Facebook virginity. It happened a few months ago, but I’ve been in denial. I created the account using my secondary (read: hardly checked, used only for esoteric Yahoo lists about traditional eating and food allergies) email. Then I just ignored my page. When I checked back during vacation in July,…

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: feminism, nostalgia

It’s 2008: Does he/she know where his/her children are?

September 12, 2008 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Today it was in the Washington Post Style section that I came across the already-tired backpeddle, “We wouldn’t be asking these questions if Sarah Palin were a man.” I say: Bullshit. Although I concede that DeNeen Brown probably had to reference this position early on in her otherwise interesting and insightful piece on how women…

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Filed Under: Activism & Politics, Uncategorized Tagged With: attachment parenting, feminism, politics

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