What I read today Oct 23
He Witnessed A Rape In 1969. He's Finally Ready To Talk About It, NPR
What it’s really like to raise a transgender child, Motherly
LISTEN: The Power of Comforting Touch During Labor, with Yiska Obadia, Birthful
Baby Names Show Enormous Gender Gap, Live Science
Baby box safety doubts raised by experts, BBC News
Why I Wanted to Learn to Perform Abortions, NY Times
Rather hard to readInherited Trauma Shapes Your Health, The Atlantic
Miscarrying at Work: The Physical Toll of Pregnancy Discrimination, NY Times
I think I need some lighter reading materialTHE WING LAUNCHES CHILDCARE WITH “THE LITTLE WING, Mother Mag
What I read today Oct 19
TODDLER BEAD THREADING, the kavanaugh report
Coffee Shop to Chase Bank , vanishing new york
On Bowery, Cultures Clash as the Shabby Meet the Shabby Chic, NY Times
How a Garden For the Poor Became a Playground For the Rich, NY Times
What I read today Oct 18
Bed-Stuy May Be Changing, but There Is Still a Line for Ribs, NY Times
Is It Possible to Be an Anti-Abortion Democrat? One Woman Tried to Find Out, NY Times
Can a Democrat Be Pro-Life?, National Review
What Justice Ginsburg Can Learn from Justice Kavanaugh, National Review
I’m Blacker Than Liz Warren Is Indian, American Conservative
Intersectional Feminism Broke Her, American Conservative
White Feminism Isn’t the Problem (but You Might Be if You Think So), Tablet
I get what Phetasy is saying, but I don’t think diversity is harmful and to support others, you can’t always center yourself.Witches: The New Woke Heroines, American Conservative
I recently had a discussion with a friend about how I find witchcraft-new-age stuff hard to believe because it feels like it comes from a point of trendiness and not a studied belief system. Pop culture / young adults are less likely to subscribe to formal religions, but don’t look at their beliefs in totality. I also saw the Catland hex on Kavanaugh and was appalled that people would want to put so much bad energy into the world, particularly those who identify as healers and their work centers on promoting the idea of consent within culture. Franklin Evans puts this into pretty succinct words in this article: “…magic used with the intention to harm is without exception antithetical to the ethic of consent”We “refuse to be silent any longer”: magic as self-care after Kavanaugh, Vox
We’re a middle-class black family. Here’s why we’ve skipped our local schools for now., Chalkbeat
Schools make me anxious
What I read today Oct 17
How hospitals are failing black mothers, Salon
Backup doula for a client delivering at SUNY Downstate and am a bit nervous…Black Mothers Face Higher Complication Rates When Delivering Babies in NYC, WNYC
Going to daycare has a positive effect on your child’s emotional development, says study, Motherly
Phrase ‘abortion on demand’ has dishonest edge, The Irish Times
In Georgia Governor’s Race, a Defining Moment for a Southern State, NY Times
LISTEN: Abrams Blue Wave
A new clash over voting engulfs Georgia gov candidates, Politically Georgia
What It Takes to Build an Anarchist Desert Town, Atlas Obscura
A Century Ago, Wood-Eating Worms Devastated San Francisco Bay, Atlas Obscura
The Most Memorable Strangers You’ve Met While Traveling, Atlas Obscura
New York Governor Cuomo Should Not Play Politics With Black Maternal Health, Rewire News
What I read today Oct 16
How Racism and Patriarchy Is Taught at School, Harpers Bazaar
Don't despair: the climate fight is only over if you think it is, The Guardian
Brooklyn Food Incubator Pilotworks Abruptly Closed Over the Weekend, Grubstreet
Kemp Wants Verifiable Voting — After His Own Governor’s Race, WABE
Democrats Left in the Dark as GOP House Committee Launches Maternal Mortality Investigation, Rewire News
What I read today Oct 15
How Marketers Talk About Motherhood Behind Closed Doors, The Atlantic
”Do not begrudge the mom for her temporary inability to see the value in your product, the moral of M2Moms seemed to be. Only when you acknowledge that her life is hell will she be open to what you’d like to sell her.”When Abortion Is Illegal, Women Rarely Die. But They Still Suffer., The Atlantic
What ‘Go to Your Room’ Teaches Kids About Dealing With Emotions, The Atlantic
#This18, NY Times
Civics Education Helps Create Young Voters and Activists, The Atlantic
Parents Are Divided on Whether It's Okay to Let Their Kids Dress as Moana for Halloween, People
When a DNA Test Reveals Your Daughter Is Not Your Biological Child, The Atlantic
Neil Armstrong Walked on the Moon. To These Boys, He Was Just Dad., NY Times
CONNIE MATISSE OF EAST FORK POTTERY OPENS UP HER ASHEVILLE, NC HOME, Mother Mag
MY NEW FAVORITE PARENTING PHRASE, the kavanaugh report
Midwives on the March, The New Yorker
For White Women Learning Calculus in a School Building On Fire, Medium
It Truly Is a 'Scary Time' for Boys, Jezebel
OMG, the comment section! I always made a lot of rules around when and where I would walk home to various apartments at night and there were def a few scary incidents
What I read today Oct 12
Freedom from Bullying: How a School Can Be a Moral Community, Psychology Today
The Five-Year-Old Who Was Detained at the Border and Persuaded to Sign Away Her Rights, The New Yorker
OUR FAVORITE BOOK FOR LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, the kavanaugh report
How school ruins kids, Medium
I’m Dying. Here Is What I Refuse to Accept With Serenity, The Nation
‘Those Kids Are No Longer Yours’: An Investigation into Uganda’s Adoption Market, The Nation
Portland family waits for answers to why they can't bring their son back to the U.S., KATU2
Free schools not delivering on promise of innovation, study finds, Financial Times
Dubious headline here
What I read today Oct 11
Activists Made BrettKavanaugh.com into a Resource for Sexual Assault Victims, broadly
Writer Nikole Hannah-Jones issues a challenge to parents in Philadelphia and beyond, The Notebook
Brooklyn Made Education: Self-Led Learning With A Slice of Social Justice, Huff Post
At Brooklyn Free School, Students Control Their Education, VOA
Class Dismissed, Psychology Today
What I read today Oct 10
Doulas are playing a role in C-section births, Washington Post
How to Have a Cesarean in Awareness, Inspired Birth Pro
NYPD cop sues for $5M, says she was shamed for pumping breast milk on the job, NY Post
Interscapular pain associated with neuraxial labour analgesia: a case series, Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society 2015
What I read today Oct 9
What I read today Oct 8
$1.3M Banksy Artwork “Self-Destructs” at Auction, hyperallergic
Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040, NY Times
The Dad-Joke Doctrine, The Atlantic
How I Trained My Husband to Be a Dad, NY Times
Motherhood gave me an identity crisis. Solving it was simple, but it wasn’t easy., Washington Post
Don’t expect your kids to come to you with all their problems—find them a “trusted adult”, Quartz
For the Bottle Man, Business Is (Happily) in the Toilet, NY Times
Making Jewelry From East River Glass, NY Times
History Lesson: The history of Columbus’ most famed ‘lost’ restaurant – The Kahiki, Columbus Underground
Demolishing the California Dream: How San Francisco Planned Its Own Housing Crisis, Collectors Weekly
Synesthesia: How My Brain Swirls Color into Life, Design Sponge
What I read today Oct 5
What if paying rent on time boosted your credit score?, Fast Company
Success Academy is moving into Brooklyn school despite opposition, NY Daily News
Kansas City Lovers Of 'Very Strange, Outside The Mainstream' Movies Now Have A Home, KBIA
Desire paths: the illicit trails that defy the urban planners, The Guardian
WATCH: Watch a Midwife and a Doula Fact-Check Hollywood Birth Scenes, Vulture
What I read today Oct 4
Two People Were Being Harassed For Speaking Spanish In A Grocery Store. Then This Woman Stepped In., Buzzfeed News
Driven by South’s Past, Black Women Seek Votes and a New Future, NY Times
Woman's Day 5107 - Down-to-Earth Smock, Unsung Sewing Patterns
Woolmark Prize Winner Bodice Is a Handmade Homage to India—And So Much More, Vogue
Ms. Colombia, Beloved Jackson Heights LGBT Figure, Found Dead, Jackson Heights Post
The Unlikely Politics of a Digital Contraceptive, The new Yorker
What I read today Oct 3
Why Is Giving Birth So Hard?, The Atlantic
City Takes Third African American Owned Property Under Guise of Affordability, Kings County Politics
University of Virginia Historian Documents How Black-Owned Land Was Stolen, JBHE
Raising a Black Boy Not to Be Afraid, Literary Hub
Black male youth more fearful when visiting whiter neighborhoods, Ohio State University
Black Boys Feel Less Safe in White Neighborhoods, Study Shows, NY Times
Women Are Being Denied Epidurals During Childbirth. Here's Why., Broadly
LPC approves additional demo of fire-ravaged Lower East Side synagogue, Curbed
See the NYC neighborhoods where displacement is a growing threat, Curbed
What I read today Sept 27
Fidget spinners, weighted blankets, and the rise of anxiety consumerism, Vox
Brands Are Dipping Into Life Coaching and Sex Advice, Racked
The Many Faces of Women Who Identify as Witches, The New YOrker
Bushwick Community Plan Calls for More Affordability and Historic Districts, Brownstoner
Christine Blasey Ford Testifies: ‘I Believed He Was Going to Rape Me’, NY Times
‘Risky Business’ and Brett Kavanaugh, 35 Years Later, NY Times
How to Make a Sheet-Pan Dinner, NY Times
What I read today Sept 26
NYC has lost one million low-rent apartments since 2005, Controller Scott Stringer says, NY Daily News
Black Feminist Literature at the NY Art Book Fair: An Interview with the Free Black Women’s Library, hyperallergic
Black Feminism Will Save Us All, Portside
Aretha Franklin died with an $80 million fortune — here's why she demanded to be paid only in cash, Insider
'A hopeless place': St Louis workhouse denounced as a modern-day debtors' prison, The Guardian