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The front door of a home is not a magic wall behind which the rules and realities of public life have no relevance –we build families within the context of larger communities, and what happens within our family walls follows when we leave.

Raising feminist kids in a feminist family means raising kids who look for disparities in our society and instead of accepting them as a social norm, set out to eradicate them! It raising kids to understand that they have the power to to be part of the solution, and can in their own actions help to redefine how our culture looks at gender inequalities. One of my heroines Martha Nussbaum writes, if you care about human flourishing (a term she uses as shorthand for such things as access to health care and education, political and personal empowerment, a capacity to cultivate one’s creativity, and so on), then you have to ask: “Among the many things human beings might develop the capacity to do, which are the really valuable ones, which are the ones that a minimally just society will endeavor to nurture and support?” The seeds planted in a feminist family…

To that end, we have linked a couple great articles that are super comprehensive with solid examples and some go-to inspiration to bolster your feminist family!

How to raise a feminist child

Start with a feminist family.

Encourage critical thinking.

Don’t stigmatize the body.

Don’t try to be a perfect feminist.

Read the Whole Article, HERE

Don’t Be Afraid to Raise a Feminist Son

My son is a feminist. In our house the definition of this word is equality for all genders. It is a word that gets a lot of negative reactions and when I use it online, I get trolled and hated by many. These responses only prove to me how much feminism needs to exist.

Read the whole article, HERE

For the Book Shelf:

Teach Your Kids The Feminist Alphabet

Ranging from A (Angela Davis) to Z (Zora Neale Hurston), the book focuses on the stories that aren’t always part of the standard telling of women’s history, as Schatz wanted ‘to try to introduce readers to women they aren’t likely to have heard of.’

Read the whole article: HERE

Great List from Book Riot, HERE

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Anne Truitt On Parenting, Creating & The Endless Cycle Of Letting Go

I noticed that when my children reached the age of about twelve, the balance of power shifted from me to them. I have sometimes felt myself in the quandary of a chicken who has hatched duck eggs: my children took to the water, I remained on the riverbank. But I cherish my own independence too much to begrudge them theirs. I do better on the bank cheering them on. If I keep a respectful distance, they welcome me into their lives almost as wholeheartedly as I welcomed them into mine when they were born. “Almost” because even the most affectionate adult children maintain with their parents a healthy reservation that marks the boundary of their autonomy. I am more impressed by what my children have taught me than by what I may have taught them. The physical purpose of reproduction is, obviously, the continuation and renewal of genetic continuity, human survival. Its psychological purpose seems to me to be a particularly poignant kind of mutual learning and, matters being equal, ineffable comfort. - Anne Truitt

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The Consequences of Justice Scalia’s Death

In the current election melee it’s easy to get caught up in difference, binaries, anger, victories and losses. It’s hard to keep our eye on the sparrow. The death of Justice Scalia puts the importance of this election in sharp focus. The in-fighting within our own party can feel intense and as though oceans of difference divide us. As the article below sets forth, The Supreme Court hangs in the balance. Ideally, Obama will nominate (and get past) a new (liberal) SCOTUS Justice. The next president will possibly put 2 to 3 more justices on the bench. The best we can do is unify, celebrating our differences while maintaining that we have too much in common, too much to lose, and too much responsibility to each other to let ourselves be divided. Elections have real consequences.

Throughout the election we will post material on what those real consequences are. There are many stark differences, real differences, between the two parties. There is NO candidate on the GOP side who believes in the science of climate change. There is NO candidate on the GOP side who believe that women have a right to abortion and bodily autonomy. There is NO GOP candidate who believes in a living wage or raising the minimum wage. There is NO GOP candidate who will state that Black Lives Matter. There is NO candidate who believes that health care is a right. NONE that believe in Paid Family Leave and Equal Pay. Some who actually believe that Muslims and Refugees should be kept out of our country. Many who believe that eroding Voting Rights is a-ok. They ALL believe that people should be able to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” and overcome the adversity that they have helped maintain, on their own. All (Or Many… who can keep track?) who don’t support marriage equality. Who are ALL anti-immigrant. For crying out loud I could go on. Anyway, these issues don’t exist in a vacuum and our humanity is inexorably linked to the human standing next to us not just in our homes, but on the street, on the subway, in line at the movie theater, the person on the corner asking for help, the human on the news risking their lives for a better future. We are all in this together, till the bitter end. Keep your eye on the sparrow.

As our brilliant friend Michael Cavadias posted:

The court was just about to decide cases destroying public sector unions, making redistricting massively favor conservative and white voters, gutting reproductive rights and eliminating affirmative action. Right now, they don’t have the votes to do that anymore. If Obama can’t get a nominee through the Senate, the next president will decide if the court will have the votes to make these destructive rulings or not. This election is more important than ever.-Michael Cavadias

The Simply Breathtaking Consequences Of Justice Scalia’s Death

“The most important rule to bear in mind now that the Court is likely to remain evenly divided for the foreseeable future is that, when the Court divides evenly on a case that is pending before it, the lower court’s order stands and the Supreme Court’s consideration of the case has no precedential value. Ordinarily, it is as if the justices never agreed to take up the case in the first place. For this term, here’s how this rule is likely to impact the Court’s docket”

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Why Are We Not Talking Reproductive Justice & Abortion In The Democratic Debates? It's February, 147 Anti-Choice Bills Have Been Introduced In 2016. In Less Than A Month SCOTUS Will Hear The Most Important Abortion Case In Decades. Why Are We Not Talking About This??? #reproductivejustice #stayhuman #profamilyprochoice #wearewomenandwevote #52% #votingmatters @prochoiceamerica @reprorights

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Lord I Love Them. And I Love How They Remind Me Of All Our Humanity. My Favorite Quote On TheTopic: About humanity: we carry on because we are loving beyond measure. We have a kind of endurance for care that I have never fully comprehended until this year. As I dug deep into my own wells of selfless, visceral, unquestioning love, deeper than I ever knew I could, I realized that someone had done that for me, and that someone does that for each person that survives infancy.- Courtney E. Martin #stayhuman #feministparenting

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In The Spirit Of High Frequency Women, I Offer This Poem By @cleowade & An Introduction To The Truth Telling Brilliance Of @misscocomasloco: Up On AT ONCE (link in bio): Another in our "Shit Together" series about keeping it together from Coco Ochwada. Here is a snippet: What do you do for self care? I walk. A lot. And I stay away from “mummy blogs” and “mummy instagrammers” for the sake of my self esteem. And communicate with friends, both mothers and non. Feeling connected to something over than my 15lb ball of drool. Whom I love dearly. (I hate that as a mother you have to add on the fine print about how you love your kids whenever you make a sarcastic comment, it’s like sarcasm is vetoed because you were super fertile that one time). #stayhuman #feministparenting #atonceonline #cocoochwada #cleowade

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Pussy Storm 2016. Blowing Shit Up For Hours Tonight. "When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her."- Adrienne Rich #stayhuman

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Up On AT ONCE: (link in bio) I'm WILD about this piece. Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing! Rebecca Solnit on the “MOTHER OF ALL QUESTIONS” and whether that question is anyone’s damn business! Girls are born into bodies that our culture see’s as all locked up to eventually be in servitude to everyone but ourselves. There is an expectation of motherhood placed on girls from the moment they are born. As Jia Tolentino says below, The idea of motherhood hovers like a cloud, as do most potentialities that are specific to the female body". There is no “right” way to be a woman. We love what she says here: “There is no good answer to being a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question”. But just because the question can be answered doesn’t mean that I ought to answer it, or that it ought to be asked. The interviewer’s question was indecent, because it presumed that women should have children, and that a woman’s reproductive activities were naturally public business. More fundamentally, the question assumed that there was only one proper way for a woman to live. #atonceonline #rebeccasolnit #stayhuman #differentstrokesfordifferentfolks #reproductivejustice #choice

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Up On AT ONCE (link in bio). Talking To Our Kids (And Ourselves) About Body Image. Poem by @nayyirah.waheed How the hell do we talk to our kids about body image? The messaging they are sent is pervasive. It's everywhere, from that stupid breast enlargement ad on the subway with the melons (New Yorkers, I know you've seen it), to the online games our tweens play, to ads, to magazines, to billboards, to the shows WE watch, they watch, they watch us watching...... It's a minefield. Our kids are constantly exposed the celebration of one body type, typically a thin, white, big boobed variety for girls, and a muscular, ripped, also white, hyper masculine type for boys. Nicole and I write about these topics because we are grappling with them ourselves. We found these articles and tips helpful. I've found that I can't protect my kids from messages about their bodies, the best I can do is talk to them about it, love my own body, and teach them how to be critical thinkers. Teach them how to root out what is problematic. Teach them that every body is a good body. And always be open to talking about it. We've Posted Lots Of Great Resources That I've Found Really Helpful! Please Add Any Resources You Love. #atonceonline #feministparenting #stayhuman #kids&bodyimage #raisegirlsandboysthesameway

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This Is A Wonderful Outcome To Consistent Take Down Of @plannedparenthood!! Much Work Left To Do But TRUTH Prevailed Today. Read whole story via @nytimes below: HOUSTON — A grand jury here that was investigating allegations of misconduct against Planned Parenthood has instead indicted two anti-abortion activists who made videos of the organization. In a statement, the Harris County district attorney, Devon Anderson, said Monday that the director of the Center for Medical Progress, David Daleiden, had been indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs. Another center employee, Sandra Merritt, was indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record. The Center for Medical Progress had covertly shot videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the provision of body parts from aborted fetuses for research. Mr. Daleiden, 26, had posed as a biotechnology representative to infiltrate Planned Parenthood affiliates and surreptitiously record his attempts to procure tissue for research. Ms. Anderson said in the statement that grand jurors had cleared Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing. She did not specify in the statement what record or records were allegedly tampered with. “We were called upon to investigate allegations of criminal conduct by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast,” Ms. Anderson said. “As I stated at the outset of this investigation, we must go where the evidence leads us. All the evidence uncovered in the course of this investigation was presented to the grand jury. I respect their decision on this difficult case.” #reproductivejustice #profamilyprochoice #stayhuman #istandwithpp

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Up On AT ONCE (link in bio): The Wise & Insightful @alexawilding Brilliantly Answers Our "Shit Together" Questionnaire. A Snippet: Do you feel like you have your shit together? Why, why not, sometimes? Before I had my boys I used to feel like I had my shit together. In fact, I was quite sure I did! But becoming a mother to two babies at once, and then seeing our son, Lou (successfully!) through cancer treatment last year, well…I realized that the feeling of having my shit together was a total illusion. Being human, complicated, and occasionally a hot mess is so much more important than keeping up appearances. While I wish it hadn’t taken my son having a beast of a brain tumor for me to learn this, I will always be grateful to the experience for showing me that shit happens, and sometimes your worst nightmare can open the door to freedom. That said, I miss the illusion some times. #feministparenting #shittogether #stayhuman #atonceonline #worklifebalancedoesntexist

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Up On AT ONCE (link in bio): SOULS TO THE POLLS! Today we launch our “Souls to the Polls” series highlighting trailblazing politicians running in local elections all over the country. Our first spotlight is on the great Donna Edwards running for Maryland's Senate seat! With so much attention given to congressional and presidential elections it easy to overlook local elections where voter turnout really matters. Local politics determine what happens in your neighborhood, from your water to your recyclables, from your city center to your local police force. You only need to look as far as the Flint water crisis, police violence and the ensuing reaction to unrest, to the schools our kids go to. Often, state politics are the guiding light for watershed federal policies. Would Barack Obama have supported marriage equality if it wasn’t for earlier victories in Washington, New York and other states? Local policies influence state policies, and state policies influence federal policies. We have a long history in the US of states and municipalities leading the way on issues from child labor to legal abortion, to women’s suffrage. Activists can have a much larger impact on state and local policy. It’s also easier for local politicians to be more radical and authentic, because…..they can actually get shit done! Shit that effects us everyday! We can also influence our local politicians more easily because their constituencies are smaller. Read more about Donna Edwards, her campaign, her work with Black Lives Matter and her experience as a single mom in politics. Also, Lenny Letter (@lennyletter) a great interview with her that's on their newsletter! #soulstothepolls #votingmatters #representationmatters #localelectionsreallymatter #DonnaEdwardsForSenate

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Everyday Is A Great Day To Reflect On Revolutionary Love. Everyday Is A Great Day To Reflect On Privilege And Systematic Racism. Everyday Is A Great Day To Educate Ourselves & Deepen Our Responsibity To Eachother. A Lesser Known MLK Quote via @90s_uprising: "Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn." -Martin Luther King #revolutionarylove #blacklivesmatter #whiteprivilege #stayhuman #mlkweekend

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"I think sometimes people are afraid to say I love you. But we're afraid to say, especially in public life, many elected officials or worldly elected officials, are afraid to talk about love. Maybe people tend to think something is so emotional about it. Maybe it's a sign of weakness. And we're not supposed to cry. We're supposed to be strong, but love is strong. Love is powerful. .....you must do all that you can do while you occupy this space during your time. And sometime I feel that I'm not doing enough to try to inspire another generation of people to find a way to get in the way, to make trouble, good trouble. I just make a little noise." - Civil Rights Leader and Senator Rep. John Lewis From On Being, THE ART & DISCIPLINE OF NONVIOLENCE #mlkweekend #stayhuman #blacklivesmatter #equality #revolutionarylove

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Up On AT ONCE (link in bio). Some Great Resources On Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend. Including a film for kids, talking to white kids about race, #LindaSarsour on MLK and Rep. John Lewis on The Art & Discipline of Nonviolence. Dear White Parents Of My Black Child’s Friends: I Need Your Help: “ But here’s the thing: As much as we can try to protect him and teach him to protect himself, there may come a time when your child will be involved. As the parents of the white friend of my black child, I need you to be talking to your child about racism. I need you to be talking about the assumptions other people might make about my son. I need you to talk to your child about what they would do if they saw injustice happening.”- by Maralee Bradley #atonceonline #mlkweekend #feministparenting #stayhuman #blacklivesmatter

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Up On AT ONCE (link in bio): The Inner Lives of Boys The rich inner lives of boys can so easily be muted and permanently transformed by gender norms that by the time our sons become men, they have no real experience with vulnerability. The “mask” of masculinity alienates our boys and men and robs them of the experience of deep connection born in sharing feelings. We’ve pulled together a few things that can help us re-write the hyper-masculine narrative our sons will be faced with. Photo by my ol' man @jessepooljesse #atonceonline #stayhuman #raisegirlsandboysthesameway #toxicmasculinity #feministparenting

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HAHAHAHA!!! @misscocomasloco just sent this to me. Sometimes all you can do is laugh. #stayhuman #votingmatters #soulstothepolls

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