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Sylvia D. Lucas wrote a new blog post: White House petition asks that women be required to register for Selective Service 3 months, 2 weeks ago · View
My feminist writing persona, whose name is Sylvia D. Lucas, exists only because I had already tried creating a slot for my real name, Kristen Tsetsi, in the world of fiction. They say you’re supposed to brand yourself, and the two didn’t necessarily mesh. But now, as a professional newspaper writer using my real name, [...]
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Sylvia D. Lucas commented on the blog post Quote of the Day: “What’s a pretty girl like you doing reading those?” 3 months, 3 weeks ago · View
Makes me think of a Hustler commercial I saw last night. Pretty young woman and a mime take their marks to make a commercial. The mime is pulling a rope next to the woman, and a male voice behind the camera asks the woman (to the best of my recollection), “What’s the mime doing?” “He’s [...]
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Sylvia D. Lucas wrote a new blog post: Exposed! Rick Santorum’s Inadvertent Support of Teen- and Single-Motherhood 1 year, 5 months ago · View
Rick Santorum, in a recent interview with CaffeinatedThoughts.com editor Shane Vander Hart , said he thinks contraception is “dangerous to the country.” As a citizen of this country, I, for one, am always alert to the possible danger I could be in, and if Rick Santorum is aware of new dangers, I think most would agree [...]
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Sylvia D. Lucas commented on the blog post When It Comes to Judgment, the Child-Free Just Might Have It Easy 1 year, 7 months ago · View
Adding on to what’s already been said in the comments… I write about this to some extent in No Children, No Guilt (Kindle book), but in short, you can expect that most people won’t believe you don’t want children “ever,” and this includes potential mates. So, when it comes to finding a partner, make sure you [...]
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Sylvia D. Lucas wrote a new blog post: When It Comes to Judgment, the Child-Free Just Might Have It Easy 1 year, 7 months ago · View
I used to feel very put-upon for being expected to have children (because of this uterus I have), and it was more than irritating to be called “selfish” (one family member I rarely see, and who was therefore probably not aware of my decision, went into a brief rant during a family visit about how [...]
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Sylvia commented on the blog post The Child-Free vs. “Breeder” war: why are we fighting it? 1 year, 7 months ago · View
Thank you all for reading and commenting. I appreciate the many responses here. I’d like to address this: when you are childfree, it is far more acceptable for strangers to make comments about the state of your uterus. If someone asks you if you have children, you usually won’t be asked “why?” or told “you may [...]
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Sylvia wrote a new blog post: The Child-Free vs. “Breeder” war: why are we fighting it? 1 year, 8 months ago · View
I recently read a blog entry on a child-free website that was followed by a comment from a woman who went on for some time about how physically disgusting she thought pregnant women were. She wrote that only the child’s father should have to be subjected to the sight of the woman’s bulging abdomen. (It’s [...]
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Sylvia wrote a new blog post: After the Vasectomy: Cut and Dry (-ish…) 1 year, 8 months ago · View
The beginning of my sex life at the ripe young age of none-of-your-business marked a series of get-out-of-pregnancy scenarios I would imagine every time my period was more than two hours late. – Abortions were expensive, but I was pretty sure my boyfriend would help pay for it. I imagined telling him I was pregnant. [...]
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