One of the ways of starkly illustrating an aspect of the gender divide is DeBecker’s quote: “At core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them.” I think there’s a class and mothering parallel here: Middle-class women are afra...

Today I continue with the project of moving books to different shelves and getting rid of books I'm done using. I am doing a reevaluation of the books I own to see if they are still useful to me or not. Or am I keeping them as a museum history of my life? I have made the hard decision to take the bo...

  We usually wait until we have a mid-week lull to watch Flight of the Conchords (On Demand, baby!) but we're going to watch it as soon as we're done writing this post just so we can see the "Garfunkeling" in better quality. Also, why is it that Jemaine is the only one ever ge...

It’s Friday again and what an amazing week we had here. For my little family it was more low-key then anything but last weekend was great. As some of you read, Little A got his first hair cut. Talk about a change. So since it is Friday and this is open chat feel free to talk about anything. Wh...

Finally got around to typing up my birth story! Miss Livvy Bean finally decided to make her appearance on Thursday night. We got home from the hospital yesterday and it's been a whirlwind. Little sleep which is to be expected. My boobs are amazingly sore from breastfeeding and pumping. It's all a bi...

I used to have my nipples pierced. Two years ago my left nipple piercing got ripped out by a savage shower stall...and it caused a chunk of scar tissue to form inside my nipple. I took my other nipple piercing out when I found out I was pregnant. When my nipples are sore or there's an...

It's tough to find replacement values, membranes, tubing, personal fit breastshields in various sizes, replacement AC adaptors, cleaning supplies and other parts for Medela and Ameda breastpumps. Nursing Mother Supplies has great prices on hard-to-find parts, and shipping is an affordable flat rate ...

We’ve done the other Bingos, and this one’s long overdue. With a nod to all the misogynist trolls out there who’ve provided the material for this card, I present: Antibreastfeeding Bingo! It’s focussed on public breastfeeding conversations, not “mommy wars” type c...

Those who’ve been following some of my recent discussions about breastfeeding and civil liberties might be interested to note this symposium poster. Parenting, Gender, and the Law is a symposium sponsored by the Stanford Journal for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The poster icons are a feed...

Welcome to the Hoyden About Town Inaugural Troll-Off! Inspired by Feministe’s Next Top Troll, in the Hoyden Troll-Off you get to vote for the worst. You’ll need to “click to continue” to see all of the contestants, and the poll. 1: First up we have recurrent troll Iain Hall, ...