I’m angry and sad about Grace Millane, and I’ve been thinking a lot about the rhetoric that inevitably emerges every time a woman is hurt: that she somehow brought it […]
I was sitting outside a cafe and I watched as a pram fell over backwards, pulled down by a bag slung over the handle. I heard the sound of […]
When you’re a student and a solo mother, your budget for personal grooming is comparable to driving to the other side of town for a holiday instead of going to […]
“Mama I had a dream about foxes and it was so scary and that’s why I don’t want to go to sleep!” Kids make up a bunch of excuses for […]
There are a lot of books that I enjoyed as a child that dismay me as an adult. But I try not to be a loud too often so I […]
Being a feminist mother of a (white) son sometimes involves a different approach to that of parenting daughters that goes beyond the strange things that happen in their nappies (how […]
This happened tonight while he was procrastinating brushing his teeth. Thank goodness 4.5 became a whole number, since neither of us knows what would happen if I ever got to […]
