Bell hooks’ notion of homeplace, domestic environments created to combat racial oppression, has been a major influence on my thinking about the domestic sphere.
Bell hooks’ notion of homeplace, domestic environments created to combat racial oppression, has been a major influence on my thinking about the domestic sphere.
In 2007, Petronella Yvonne de Horde was attacked by a silverback gorilla at the Rotterdam zoo. This anecdote came to mind when I read Jennifer Grayson’s Unlatched: The Evolution of Breastfeeding and the Making of a Controversy.
Here's a neat linguistic trick to help identify sexist thinking about the value of women's work.
The original 1970 pamphlet “Women and Their Bodies,” which became the wildly popular and influential women’s health resource Our Bodies, Ourselves, outlined the following demands.
When meeting new people, I have a go-to first question: What do you wish people understood about your work?