Me too Me too Me too My time line is ringing in the echoes of me too. The first day I saw it, I posted my own. Simple and to the point: Me too. I didn’t want to go into the details. There’s too many to remember if truth be told. Saying me too hints towards…
Sexism
Another Reading of the Single Mum Research
You might have seen in the news recently that a study has just been released about the long term effects of growing up with a single parent (read mum). It’s the usual kind of gumpf – single parents are useless, blah, blah, blah. Only this one claimed to have long term data to prove it,…
When My Son Wears A Skirt and Other Sexist Stories
My son is a car loving, hello kitty bike riding, tutu wearing, underwater swimming, rough and tumble caring boy who is as eclectic as he is lovely. When he was younger, although the sexist comments bothered me I was able to protect him from much of it. I made sure that the way I raised my son gave him…
Muvvahood A Review
Muvvahood sucks you in. Just as you think your emotions will end up shattered on the floor, the hope of single motherhood shines through. “When he laughs, the world feels right.” Muvvahood was researched and written by Libby Liburd over the course of a year. As a performer Libby has a rare skill; you can hear the…
Gender Stereotypes: Colour Coding Children
My son was barely a week old when I took him to a work gathering dressed in a cute little hungry caterpillar outfit (see photo). The guy I was chatting away to seemed to be slightly uncomfortable when he explained, ‘it’s difficult because you didn’t colour code the baby’. It took me a while to work out…
Such A Boy: Gender Stereotypes
Apparently you’re such a boy, so they tell me. You eat dirt, such a boy You kick balls, such a boy You love anything that moves – like bikes and buses and automobiles. You love to run and jump and climb. . You’re such a boy, I hear it everyday. So do you. . But…