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• Scary good

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-11-01 • ( 3 )

  In case you don’t follow me on twitter (why ever not?) and haven’t already seen me tweet this link from reddit… Image from reddit My 5yo daughter wanted to be a Princess Darth Vader for Halloween. So proud. submitted 1… Read More ›

• When did you first identify as feminist?

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-10-04 • ( 11 )

  

  Recently I wrote for Mamafesto about how and when I came to identify as feminist. (Avital Nathman is still looking for other feminist contributors, so….). Then just this week I came across photos of me from that time. I was… Read More ›

• “Life in paradise. Death in custody”.

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-09-24 • ( 1 )

  

  I recently read Chloe Hooper’s The Tall Man, upon which this documentary is based and it’s a terrific read. (You can get a taste of it here). Kinda like Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood in terms of genre, but a… Read More ›

• Who’s afraid of feminists raising sons?

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-09-20 • ( 6 )

  I’m a huge Lionel Shriver fan – difficult, divisive, dark and absolutely enthralling. My sister and her friend and I trade Shriver novels and can talk about them endlessly. I have often thought that I’d like to belong not to… Read More ›

• Feminists are not your enemy

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-09-03 • ( 5 )

  

  As an economist and a feminist I can’t tell you irritating I find articles like this one from Lucy Kippist in The Punch, “Screw equal pay; what do women really want?” Academics and feminists who continue to prioritise the closing… Read More ›

• Art for your weekend

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-09-02 • ( 3 )

  

  From Japanese-British artist, Sputniko! More here: She talks about her “Menstruation Machine” as coming out of a love of high-tech – she studied computer science before moving into the arts – coupled to a woman’s frustration with it. “Technology is… Read More ›

• Obstetrician/MP fighting for home birth rights

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-08-29 • ( 3 )

  

  I didn’t have a home birth, one of my children was born in a birth centre and the other one in a mainstream hospital but I absolutely support the right for other women to choose home birth if they so… Read More ›

• Viva la Vulva (possibly NSFW)

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-08-21 • ( 27 )

  

  Hey, wanna get all ‘1970’s Germain Greer’ feminism and analyse female genital art together? Oh, don’t be such a kill-joy, yes you do. This is an interesting art piece. The sculptor, Jamie McCartney has created a piece called The Great… Read More ›

• Too sexy for breastfeeding?

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-08-17 • ( 20 )

  

  Image credit. (Some Not Suitable For Work links included in this post). Not long after her baby was born, Madison Young, an adult actor – also an artist, film director, gallery director, and activist – put on an art show… Read More ›

• Game of Thrones: when attachment parenting goes fantasy

  By hatbluemilk on 2011-08-12 • ( 14 )

  

  Are any of you watching Game of Thrones? Have you seen the ‘extended breastfeeding’ scene in episode 5? (Not there yet, then look away, look away, this post is probably going to be full of SPOILERS from the first season)…. Read More ›