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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.

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• I wanted to be Pat Benatar....I think she wants to be Natalie Maines

  I'm a child of the '80s and thus grew up in the hey day of MTV. You know, when they actually showed music videos and the non-music shows were related to music (Remote Control 4EVER). So I logged more than my fair of time watching, acting out music videos Read More... Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:31 AM by Veronica Arreola | 1 Comments Filed under: events, girls, popculture, feminism, redthread, gender roles, personal, body image, movies

• Going to the movies without going broke

  Remember the days when you just needed patience and a dollar to see a movie? Well now all you need is patience and five dollars! Kerosotes Theaters have this nifty club ingeniously called, The Five Buck Club . I read about it on Gapers Block a few months Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 23, 2008 3:43 PM by Veronica Arreola | 2 Comments Filed under: events, popculture, media, redthread, family, discounts, movies

• Dora the Explorer of Eating Disorders

  My heart literally sank when I saw this post about the latest Dora dolls. What happened to my daughter's best doll friend? Just the other day she was a happy-go-lucky exploradora and now she looks like she needs a few tamales! I may need to order " Yum! Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:32 AM by Veronica Arreola | 4 Comments Filed under: girls, popculture, health, feminism, redthread, TV, eating disorders, body image

• Tell Me When I'm Beautiful - Part 3

  In part one we defined the problem with the increase in sexualization of girls, in part two we discussed some of the criticisms of the APA report , and here we'll talk about what we DO to combat our girls' childhood being taken away from them. Let's get Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:00 AM by Veronica Arreola | 1 Comments Filed under: education, girls, popculture, boys, health, media, news, sports, sex, feminism, redthread

• Tell Me When I'm Beautiful - Part 2

  Please note this is a recreated post as I could not find it on the internet archive. Soon after the APA report was released my favorite (not) editorial writer came out with a critique. I have to say directly to Kathleen Parker, please come up with a new Read More... Posted Thursday, March 22, 2007 12:00 AM by Veronica Arreola | 1 Comments Filed under: education, girls, popculture, boys, health, media, news, sports, sex, feminism, redthread

• Tell Me When I'm Beautiful - Part 1

  Please note this is a recreated post as I could not find it on the internet archive. What do you say to that? As I stared at my 3.5-year-old my heart ached. Has it started already? "You're always beautiful, mija." On one hand I can't say that it's much Read More... Posted Monday, March 19, 2007 12:02 AM by Veronica Arreola | 1 Comments Filed under: education, girls, popculture, boys, health, media, news, sports, sex, feminism, redthread