I’m the daughter of an empowered woman. She’s a professor, a researcher, someone who made her life the way she chose it. I’m the grand daughter of an empowered woman, of her generation. An equal marriage, an earner as well as a mother and housewife, someone still living independently at nearly 90, someone who has […]
Watch Out… Lady Driver.
For a long time, surrounded by far more politically astute friends, I worried (in my spare time) about the fact that I almost totally failed to be rampant and outraged by lots of the -isms that my peers and friends knew lots about. It gnawed at me, for example, that I didn’t seem to be […]
Not the language post I planned to write today.
But you know what, this one is more important. Because when I came across this literacy set in a toy shop today, I just wanted to cry. What the hell is something like this doing in a shop, alongside keywords, sight words and literacy in the 21st century? How can it possibly be that anyone, […]