A while back and elsewhere, there was a conversation about this magazine cover. Part of the backlash – among breastfeeding mothers of all people! – was around “explanations”. “I don’t want to come across that magazine cover in the supermarket… Read More ›
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Ads masquerading as “information”: more infant formula company hijinks
Edited to add (20 Oct 07): The Australian “Natural Parenting” website is now plastered with Wyeth formula advertisements, including on its front page. Way to go, NP. I’m glad to see they’re haemorrhaging members over it, but sorry to see… Read More ›
The League of Maternal Justice wants YOU!
If you’ve ever breastfed, or supported a mother who breastfed, or support the right of other mothers to freely breastfeed no matter what, the League wants you tomorrow as part of the Great Virtual Breast Fest. There’s an emphasis on… Read More ›
Things not to do.
I just remembered something that really, really pissed me off over four years ago, and that I never really complained properly about at the time. I was a subject in a breastfeeding research lab for about a year, in a… Read More ›
Babies, body fluids and the “bizarre”
[image from the Daily Mail] Mostly, I just wanted to blog this story because I love this photo. Nadia is on the left. But there is stuff to say, too. Melissa at Shakesville has been blogging about the way in… Read More ›
Mostly Feminist Reader: Commonsense edition
NY Times: “In Reversal, Student Is Given Extra Exam Time to Pump Breast Milk”: Sophie Currier, who was refused appropriate accommodations to pump breastmilk for her young daughter while sitting her medical Board exams, has had the ruling overturned on… Read More ›
The eternal feminist problem: Lecture deficiency syndrome
Before we start: please read my disclaimer[1], which shouldn’t be necessary, but is. I’ve had a nudge or two behind the scenes to write something in response to this fatuous piece from the Herald Sun: “Feminists fail to stay abreast… Read More ›
100%. I repeat, ONE HUNDRED PERCENT! Can’t you read? ………. oh. wait.
I’ve blogged on the “partnership” between the International Breastmilk Project and for-profit human-milk-mining pharmaceutical company Prolacta before. To catch up: Feed the wo-orld”¦ one baby, anyhow. Salon’s “Milk Money”: media scrutiny of the IBMP-Prolacta partnership Milking it in California and… Read More ›
Flimsy. Wimpy. Weak. The Parliamentary Breastfeeding Inquiry Report.
The discourse around breastfeeding, both public and private tends to flit between two summations: “Mothers should breastfeed” and “Mothers shouldn’t feel guilty”. I’m guessing that regular Hoydenistas have spotted the framing problem already: “Mothers should”. (If you’re a mother, are… Read More ›
Milking it in California
Edited to add: Two other blogs have now picked up on this story. The Lactivist notes “The International Breast Milk Project in the News Again“. And MamaBear at breastfeedingsymbol.org has done some ringing around – directly to the iThemba Lethu… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 