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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.

May 2008 - Posts

• We're gonna need a bigger fly swatter

  Over the Memorial Day weekend we ventured out to The Morton Arboretum or what some affectionately call, The Tree Museum. And boy were we lucky! First, it only rained for a few minutes and second David Rogers' Big Bugs exhibit was on show. Once we paid Read More... Posted Friday, May 30, 2008 12:40 AM by Veronica Arreola | 1 Comments Filed under: events, family, redthread

• Leave No Myth Behind

  In January of 2006 Newsweek put four white boys on their cover with the headline "The Boy Crisis." Inside they told the tale that was so shocking that the myth grew so fast that the factual evidence that quickly came out was ignored. What was this myth? Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:11 PM by Veronica Arreola | 0 Comments Filed under: boys, education, feminism, gender roles, girls, news, redthread