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What happens when a long-time feminist activist becomes a mother? How does she stay true to her vocation and voice and still have time for her daughter? She's not sure either, but join this baseball-loving Chicago feminist as she tries to find her way through typical parenting land mines with a feminist perspective.

March 2008 - Posts

• Do you know a brave girl?

  Of course you do! One of my favorite indie stores is having a contest to cap off Women's History Month: Please post [at Sticker Sisters ] about [a brave woman or girl] you know or [one] you admire from a far. On April 1st [Ariel will] pick one of the Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:32 PM by Veronica Arreola | 0 Comments Filed under: girls, feminism, redthread, gender roles, body image, gifts

• Your local school needs you

  We all know that the Chicago Public Schools are in a state of um, flux. They are trying things that other school systems don't do or maybe even, don't need. One of the experiments that seem to work in some schools is the Local School Council : Local School Read More... Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 1:47 PM by Veronica Arreola | 0 Comments Filed under: education, girls, boys, news, feminism, redthread

• CPS Boarding Schools?

  There are days when my husband & I joke around about shipping our sassy & (some days too) precocious daughter to boarding school. Thus it intrigued me to see the headline - No small plan: Public boarding schools for Chicago - in Friday's Chicago Read More... Posted Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:19 PM by Veronica Arreola | 0 Comments Filed under: education, news, redthread, family, homeless

• One in four moms with daughters has failed

  Do you ever read headlines and you interpret them as your failure? That's what I did when I read yesterday that 1 in 4 teenaged girls have a STD . The overall STD rate among the 838 girls in the study was 26 percent, which translates to more than 3 million Read More... Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 12:22 AM by Veronica Arreola | 2 Comments Filed under: girls, boys, health, news, sex, feminism, redthread

• Yeah, but my [body part] is so [adj]

  The hardest part about raising a daughter has been watching my mouth. I swear a lot. I use the F-word A LOT. I also take almost any opening I get to say something negative about my body. "Oh these chicken breasts are huge!" I bet they could at least button Read More... Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 12:47 AM by Veronica Arreola | 1 Comments Filed under: girls, health, feminism, redthread, family, personal, eating disorders, body image, food