Happy World Breastfeeding Week, and Breastfeeding Awareness Month!! This year’s theme is Breastfeeding Support: Close to Mothers, and highlights peer counselors — who have done fabulous work. I’m looking around and I see so many advocates celebrating this time of year in their own unique way. Many times, I still CANNOT BELIEVE this is the work I […]
Can you think of many other awesome things happening than an author revising a book, based on feedback from readers (besides a collective effort of humankind to improve the global conditions by dismantling institutional racism, patriarchy, ending war, abolishing the death penalty, and all other systems of injustice, — a lengthy list of other things I […]
I think it was getting out of the house the other day and seeing some friends that put me in a better mood (and I have to say a slightly silly one) than I had been in over the past few days — you know, with the Black enmity, and all. What also helped was […]
If you follow me on Twitter, then you’ll know that a few weeks ago I said because I’m insanely busy right now (I’ll let on to what’s happening soon enough:)) I wasn’t going to post anymore until sometime next month — late next month — maybe even early next year. Ya…. about that.The bumper sticker […]
If there’s anything better than reading a children’s book centered around breastfeeding, it’s reading a children’s book centered around breastfeeding with a family Of Color. The awesomeness that is this newly released This Milk Tastes Good, authored by Chenniah Patrick and illustrated by her husband, who are both founders of JhaZamoraS Publishing. Chenniah, whose milk is […]
Zora and Me, is written by Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon, and is the fictional story of Zora Neale Hurston’s life as a young girl growing up in her hometown of Eatonville, Florida. The story is narrated by Carrie, the best friend of young Zora. Of the most amazing things about this text is that it was written by […]
Ladder to the Moon is written by Maya Soetoro-Ng, who is President Barack Obama’s sister, mother of Suhalia, and daughter of the late Stanley Anne Dunham, the last two who are both main figures in the text. Ladder to the Moon is a book a bout questions, answers, and also about closure. Grandma Annie and Suhalia […]
What does democracy mean to you? Dr. Patricia Hill Collins uses her critical consciousness and sociological imagination to bring us another illuminating text. ANOTHER KIND OF PUBLIC EDUCATION: Race, Schools, the Media, and Democratic Possibilities, is Dr. Collins’s most recent work, written in 2009, and examines the meaning of democracy, and shows us the way education can have the greatest impact, […]
I took the Medical Terminology and Abbreviations course online on Sunday. Go me! So that means one general education course is completed! Yeah! The course is offered online by the University of North Carolina Center for Public Health and it’s free! I have to be honest that hearing all of the medical terms and the […]
TAINTED MILK: breastmilk, feminisms, and the politics of environmental degradation by Maia Boswell-Penc takes a conscious-raising look at environmental pollution and breastmilk, and its effect at a national and global level. It examines the politics behind infant nourishment, and looks at why the issue of contamination is repeatedly disregarded by those organizations and groups who would […]