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Bad Mothers

'Bad' mothers are regular women who subvert the one-dimensional patriarchal ideal of womanhood. But some really are just bad.

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Did you always want kids?

Guest essay from Maggie Frank-Hsu

Politics Meets Feminism with Dick Polman

Last night Dick Polman and I began a monthly series in which we’ll chat about what’s happening in American politics and how it continues to feed the patriarchy.

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Lindsay Clancy's illness and the pull of motherhood

No matter the circumstances for pregnant women, they inevitably risk their own well-being in order to have a child.

How squash is teaching me to be less nice

“I figured out why I’m so bad at squash...it’s the patriarchy.”

When Asha Dore decided to go no-contact

Asha Dore is a speech-pathologist, editor, and extremely prolific writer.

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The bad mom in the room: On loving kids the world doesn't

I have been told I am a bad mother — in implicit and explicit ways — for the last twenty years.

Monica's reading

A list of what's caught my eye lately

Ep 13: Daddy Issues by Katherine Angel

Welcome to the new edition of the Bad Mothers podcast.

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Book Club discussion: The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

with Tam from Family Estrangement

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I’m Childfree and My Ex Mother-In-Law Couldn’t Accept This

“Please just one baby, for me, you don’t have to have lots, just one.”