So - ironically? fittingly? - that last post just turned into a scuffle that had little to do with the topic at hand. Is HBM just a domineering beeyatch who veils her tendency to...

As I note here with some frequency, I have spent a long time in the university system. In the Academy, Social Sciences and Humanities quadrant. Where they take their feminism seriously. (You don't think...

... and sleep. Remember sleep? I used to loooove sleep. That sweet, sweet feeling of sinking into bed, into a nest of blankets, into your own body, wrapping your arms around a cool soft...

Edit: More links added below!I've been promising this for a while: a smackdown post wherein I drag Caitlin Flanagan and Linda Hirshman into my bloggy ring and bash some heads together. Problem was, every...

Now with new editing action below!What they don't tell you #673: that having a baby may be one of the loneliest things that you will ever do.Sure, people come around and visit and bring...

*The Daily Edit: my reflections on the first ever Toronto Mama Blogger Hoe-Down are coming, and will pre-empt the perpetually pre-empted Feminist Smackdown. My local home girls are more worthy of my words than...

We interrupt regularly scheduled Heavy Blogging (the long-promised but ever-elusive Feminist Smackdown) for more Happy Blogging: this month’s Perfect Post Awards! (And tomorrow: the June Blog Exchange!)I’ve never awarded a Perfect Post Award. I’ve...

Thanks to all for the tremendously supportive comments to my last post. They were, each and every one of them, so appreciated. *Edited below. Because you've come to expect it.The Feminist Smackdown is up...

**Edited below As promised, more Heavy and Really Sort Of Morose Blogging. Don't say I didn't warn you. If morose bores you, scroll back a post and reflect upon roller-skating, Steve Zissou, David Hasselhoff,...

(Disregard the date of this post - I needed a page for this piece for linkage purposes and there was this handy draft space in my archives...