I am wanting to write two books.
One is going to be called; EMERGENCY! MOTHERHOOD! that deals with all the money grubbing patriarchal misogynistic fear mongering ways that us girls and women are being taught to buy into the culture of materialism and fear and dependance on BigBusiness as a surrogate Daddy that we do not want or need. From prepubescence on, the YOU SUCK BUT WE CAN SELL YOU A TEMPORARY CURE FROM THE HORRIFICCLY WRONG-NESS THAT IS YOU message---well, stuff like that. You are ugly and fat and everything that is natural and normal and human is gross and messy and scary and wrong and how you can spray all that instinct away for three easy payments...from pregnancy and prenatal (s)care in this society, to birth and mothering in a realm of lawsuit avoidance rather than sound ancient wisdom. Believe me, even if it is just ends up being a collection of essays, there are TONS of other mamas out there writing this kind of libertaing message of freedom that comes when we refuse to walk in fear and doubt and how fun and great it can be to get to a place where we can laugh heartily at the whole emergency that is supposed to be our lives.
My other book is going to be called GROWING UP UNDERNEATH A ROCK, and hopefully will contain true stories of what it was like to be a human child living in a decent sized metropolitan area, within a very liberal family unit/circle of friends, and turning out one million percent fine despite being so "sheltered" as a result of being homeschooled. Hopefully victorious and cheerful stories of enlightenment and simplicity that cast a great deal of light upon how absurd it is to fret when we rear our young outside of the government schools.
Joy as she is becoming
About Me
- Housefairy
- I have been a young Mama and an older Mama. I have been a homebirthing Mama and a 3 time c-sectioned Mama. I am very cutting edge and very old fashioned. I am married to my high school sweetheart and we have five children whom we homeschool with a very eclectic approach. I am a reformed closed-minded/ know-it-all AP/granola snoot who doesn't play those Mommy Wars anymore. I am first and foremost a feminist kindred spirit and friend to mothers, with a penchant for all things colorful and human and real. I am an interesting character and so are you. You will not like everything I have to say but I hope you visit often and can find something useful or good or true out of my writings.
3 comments:
I sure hope our kids can add lovely essays to that book about homeschoolers!
I plan to include interviews with all of your kids in the book, if you let me!
There is this horrible little commercial on the radio here about some weight loss something or another. But the person reading the commercial is a MAN telling us all about how he has fallen back in love with his girl because she looks SO FANTASTIC now.
I think I vomited in my mouth a little the first time I heard it.
There is another one about a breast enhancement product that also makes me want to wrench the radio from the wall and hurl it out the window (I don't because it's not the radio's fault).
Makes me bonkers.
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