The Boy and I recently celebrated our second wedding anniversary, and our dinner out was pretty great – look for the restaurant review post next week. But as someone who got married and pregnant in quick succession after having the one serious boyfriend for a chunk of time that followed a long long stretch of […]
feminism
Movie – RBG
A few years back I read The Notorious RBG, a biography of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In fact, it was during my trip to New York City that took place on the tiny plane that I devoured the book. When you’re trying really hard not to look out the windows, because the plane […]
Personal – Back to Work
So, as of Monday, I’m officially a working mom. I’ve got my bags and bags of stuff that I carry with me to the office every day, the largest of which is my pumping bag so I can collect all the milk for Baby B during the day and she can eat it. I’ve got […]
Movie – Wonder Woman
I have not seen a movie in the theaters in months and months and months. Granted, there was Beauty and the Beast, but that was 2 months after it came out and there were only a handful of people in the theater with us. But before that? Rogue One. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find […]
TV – The Handmaids Tale (Hulu)
5 years ago if someone asked, you would probably have said that in the future, things could only be better for women. But we now live in a world where organizations which provide healthcare services to women are being rapidly defunded, health care bills in which pregnancy and rape could count as “pre-existing conditions” which […]
Personal – A Day Without Women
I am a feminist. This means that I believe in political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. It also means that I support groups that fight for women’s rights. In this case, “women’s rights” are those topics that strive to bring women to an equal footing with men. Not above. Equal. We are currently living […]
Articles – Lenny Letter
I am so tired. It’s only a partial lack of sleep, but a large portion is that there’s just so much going on, and it’s easy to get into a rut. And then you drive further into that rut and get stuck and die. Maybe not. I’m exaggerating. Perhaps it’s our election which feels like […]
Book – Half the Sky (and Kiva)
Once again I read a book from Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf book club focusing on feminist issues, and the book for September and October is “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide” by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. In it, this married, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist couple explores the ways in which women are […]
Book – Americanah
One of my goals this year was to read more books by women, more books by non-white authors, and more books by non-Americans (which is a funny word, and I’m not even sure is correct terminology?). The point of all this being that when we learn about the world from what we read in books, […]
Book – The Year of Yes
Guys – there is no possible way to be objective in this book review. That’s because I love Shonda Rhimes and everything she does. I started watching Grey’s Anatomy in season 2 (I’ll be honest – I got sucked in by that Super Bowl “bomb in a body cavity” episode, and pretty much stuck around for […]