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Should You Perfume Your Vagina to Get Ahead at Work? Let Summer’s Eve Know What You Think.

Jake — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:37:49 +0000

There is a very good post over at Owning Pink – it had me at the title: Want a Raise? Wash Your Vagina. The post is about a full page ad in Women's Day magazine for Summer's Eve Feminine Cleansing Cloths. In that ad (a scan of which is on the blog post), there are [...]

Wordless Wednesday

Jake — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:44:01 +0000

Photo Copyright Photographer Rachel Valley

Much of my work as a breastfeeding advocate/lawyer is about securing a right for mothers to be in public space. That means having a protected legal right to engage in the act of mothering in all the places people get to be. Mothers must own the public space along [...]

It’s the 90th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment. How Much Do You Know About Women’s Suffrage?

Jake — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:39:04 +0000

Today is the 90th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, also known as Women's Equality Day. You probably (hopefully?) know that the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote (okay, theoretically…this was many years before the passage of the Voting Rights Act so in reality we are probably [...]

You’ve Heard of Blood Diamonds. How About Conflict Minerals?

Jake — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:25:39 +0000

Many in the U.S. hadn't heard of "blood diamonds" until the popular film with Leonardo DiCaprio. The mining and sale of diamonds from Sierra Leone, the Congo and other African countries have long financed and fueled war, slavery and unspeakable violence in parts of Africa.

While there is a regulatory system in place that arguably reduces [...]

Hands Across the Sand in North Wildwood, New Jersey

Jake — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:47:55 +0000

Hands Across the Sand is a movement with a simple message: NO to offshore oil drilling, YES to clean energy. In the literal wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, there seems no better time to join hands at the waters' edge in solidarity with others who wish to protect the [...]

Boycotting BlogHer Because I Boycott Nestle

Jake — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 01:18:39 +0000

Not long after I first started using Twitter – which was about the same time I finally began this blog – there was a great deal of Tweeting about BlogHer '09. It sounded like the place everybody who was a female blogger wanted to be. There was controversy – something about "swag," excessive freebies that [...]

Marriage Equality In Ireland

Jake — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:15:04 +0000

With thanks to @thecurvature, I bring you an extraordinary video by an organization called Marriage Equality, an Irish organization working to support civil marriage for gay and lesbian people.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ULdaSrYGLQ

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This is What a Nursing Toddler Looks Like

Jake — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:17:31 +0000

Top Hat over at Its All About the Hat suggested a Breastfeeding Blog Carnival called "This is What a Nursing Toddler Looks Like." [This is my first blog carnival so I will link to the other participants as soon as I figure out the rules of the game - UPDATE: I have added some links [...]

When is Breastfeeding Rights Legislation a Bad Thing?

Jake — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:39:46 +0000

When it does not create or protect the right of a woman to breastfeed. When is breastfeeding rights legislation a really really bad thing? When it makes it even more difficult for a woman to breastfeed than if there were no law at all. And this really really bad thing is what is happening in [...]

I Still Can’t Be President

admin2 — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:42:35 +0000

Tomorrow I will watch the U.S. presidential inauguration with my children and I will weep. I will tell them that we are watching history, glorious history, something I never thought I would see in my lifetime. I, like many people my age in the U.S., never thought I would live to see an African-American president.

I [...]