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By Alexandra • 13 years ago

Women’s Tattoos and Piercings

Hi everyone,

In my Women’s Studies class, I am working on a project on the tattoos, piercings, and body modifications in general of women. I need to poll both women and men about their body modifications. I’d appreciate it if anyone here would answer the following questions:

1. How many tattoos or piercings do you have?
2. Where are they located? Are they easy to hide?
3. What is their content?
4. Why did you get them?
5. What is their meaning to you?
6. In what ways, if any, have the tattoo/s or piercings affected the way other people, whether in casual or professional relationships, view you?

7. Do you identify as male or female?

Thank you!
By Alexandra • 14 years ago

Inclusive, socially liberal children’s books?

I want to make sure that my daughter, from the very beginning, is made aware that families and couples and people in general come in many varieties, and that that’s okay. What are some good children’s books with non-traditional families, persons, or ideals?

I want to make sure that my daughter, from the very beginning, is made aware that families and couples and people in general come in many varieties, and that that’s okay. What are some good children’s books ...
By Alexandra • 14 years ago

Experiments in half and half

My partner and I have had a lot of arguments about who does what when. It was especially hard when our daughter, S, was first born. J was stressed out of his mind, and so was I, and neither of us dealt with it very well. He expected me to care for the baby the great majority of the time because "Babies just like their mothers better!" and yet he also expected me to do a good deal of housework. And he worked at home. He would sit around at his desk, editing something or other and ignoring the fact that he’d become a father.

As time passed, and as I got closer and closer to just losing my mind, J ...

My partner and I have had a lot of arguments about who does what when. It was especially hard when our daughter, S, was first born. J was stressed out of his mind, and so was I, ...
By Alexandra • 14 years ago

I Think He Would Have Liked It

I attended the Boston vigil for Dr. Tiller this evening, and I’m trying to find a unifying thread that sums it up. As someone who didn’t know Dr. Tiller, is not an activist (as opposed to, I don’t know, a philosophize-ivist), and had never before entered the church at which the event took place, I don’t really feel qualified to give any assessment. But I’ll try.

The vigil was both unsatisfying and beautiful. It was unsatisfying in that there is nothing that can make Dr. Tiller’s death less horrific — not leaning on shoulders, not lighting candles. His death and his bravery feel like gnawing things inside of me, urging me out of my own head and into the world. ...

I attended the Boston vigil for Dr. Tiller this evening, and I’m trying to find a unifying thread that sums it up. As someone who didn’t know Dr. Tiller, is not an activist (as opposed to, I ...