In this chapter, I share my experiences from being a part of two generations of a Muslim polygamous household and how those exper-iences, coupled with the social, political, and economic nature of my country, have affected my understanding of feminist parenting; my intention is not to degrade the institution of polygamy but to understand it. …
I first discuss what being a feminist means to me and the dreams and visions I had prior to becoming a parent as a young woman who wanted to have it all. I will then focus on what my daughter’s arrival has meant and what has changed or been challenged. Finally, I share my experience …
The journey to become a black woman academic in South Africa, before the ending of apartheid in 1994, was not an easy task. There were very few black women positioned as lecturers or senior lecturers at the time and certainly none that we knew as professors (currently only 2 per cent of the professors in …
We really hope that you’ve found parts of the book to be applicable to your family life. We set out to capture common parenting moments, since it’s usually helpful just to know that these issues arise in households around the world multiple times a day. Parents and caregivers don’t often share their kids’ worst moments …
As promised, the rest of this book is devoted to scenarios where we’ll have you practice using the framework we shared with you in Chapters 1 and 2. The more you practice, the easier this becomes, but nothing replaces knowing your own kid. That’s why we’ll provide examples that we’ve found to be helpful, but …
JUST BEFORE I BEGAN WRITING THIS CHAPTER, I READ ABOUT a thirty-nine-year-old man who body-slammed a thirteen-year-old boy at a county fair because the boy didn’t take his hat off during the national anthem. The man fractured the boy’s skull.78 The stats don’t lie, and the truth is our boys are getting angrier and angrier, …
Rape culture is the normalization of violence against women as reflected in our cultural norms. It’s the glamorization of sexual violence against women in pop culture; it is the dehumanization of women in the media. Rape culture lives on today, not just in our politics but also among our children—in the playground, at the dinner …
Bushmaster took things a step further by creating the Man Card Online promotion, which consisted of an online quiz in which test-takers were asked a series of complex and Mensa-level questions meant to gauge their manhood and ultimately determine if they were truly worthy of possessing the much-sought-after Man Card. It was (so originally) called …
MY GRANDMOTHER ALWAYS SAID, “NEVER TALK POLITICS OR religion.” But she didn’t live in the age of Make America Great Again, alternative facts, Twitter, the twenty-four-hour news cycle, and this batshit-crazy climate in which truth seems to matter less than blind allegiance. So, with apologies to Grandma, I’m about to get pretty controversial because it …
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