All in feminism
They say gaining too much weight will make it harder to lose “it” again after giving birth. As if the weight one gains during pregnancy is ballast, stored in discrete ingots around the waist, the thighs
I reread Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse recently, wanting to revisit the virtuosic mother and household manager Mrs. Ramsay now that I have a child myself (a mere one instead of eight, admittedly—but then, I also lack a staff of nanny, housekeeper, and multiple silly and homesick maids).
I’m starting to envision a world in which hiring men is seen as a risky move.
How can food system activists depict the unphotogenic, the mundane-but-important?
We believe that a mother is automatically and naturally a multitasker, that once she has a child she will never again devote herself fully to any pursuit other than mothering.