Lactivism

Breastfeeding ≠ Not Safe For Work (no NSFW around here)

November 10, 2009

NSFW = Not Safe(Suitable) For Work (contains graphic or adult imagery which might be offensive to employers or co-workers.) So I was thinking about the NSFW designation and how it should be used/not used on the blog. Breastfeeding pictures can show a fair amount of skin and even when they don’t the controversy still roils [...]

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Boycotting Nestlé – It should be easy right?

Cropped Nestlé-Free Zone image of bird leaving nest October 28, 2009

In my perfect world nothing would get in the way of a year-round boycott of Nestlé. It’d be simple and I wouldn’t have to compromise. At All. Ever! Even in this less-than-simple world I inhabit I figure I can still knock out a week-long boycott with one hand tied behind my back.

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Is breastfeeding advocacy anti-feminist? An essay by Katherine A. Dettwyler

September 22, 2009

My ultimate goal has always been that all women have access to the information and support they need to breastfeed for as long as they want, wherever they want, couched within an understanding of the evolutionary history of our species. Within the scholarly community, both in anthropology and in related disciplines, my work has been variously embraced, dismissed, misinterpreted, or attacked.

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