culture

A Breast With a View – NIP Around the World

July 8, 2010

Welcome to the July 2010 Carnival of Nursing in Public This post was written for inclusion in the Carnival of Nursing in Public hosted by Dionna and Paige at NursingFreedom.org. All week, July 5-9, we will be featuring articles and posts about nursing in public (“NIP”). See the bottom of this post for more information. [...]

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My Only Regret

July 6, 2010

Welcome to the July 2010 Carnival of Nursing in Public This post was written for inclusion in the Carnival of Nursing in Public hosted by Dionna and Paige at NursingFreedom.org. All week, July 5-9, we will be featuring articles and posts about nursing in public (“NIP”). See the bottom of this post for more information. [...]

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Why bovine breastfeeding comparisons leave me cold

June 21, 2010

Breastfeeding Mom = Cow It’s pretty difficult for me to find the compliment when a breastfeeding mom is compared to an animal that is mostly invoked to tell people they are stupid, fat, slow, smelly, ugly or lazy. Sure, everyone loves some milk, a little cheese, that great ice cream or their frappuccino-cappuccino-lattes but the [...]

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They should feel guilty for not breastfeeding!

April 28, 2010

Well, They should! If you think this, or more importantly if you’ve said this, my post is addressed to you. I suppose I ought to warn you that I’m more than a little peeved with what you are doing because no matter your thought process, no matter what your intentions are, when you say this [...]

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NIP Nukers Raise My Blood Pressure

December 9, 2009

A couple of days ago I watched the tail-end of a Twitter dust-up between a young man and some lactivists that I follow regarding breastfeeding in public (hereafter known as NIP). The tweets got so tense I responded viscerally just from watching the exchange (you know those tight-in-the-chest, tingly arm, itchy finger, head-in-a-vice-ready-to-explode, Oh-no-you-didn’t-just-say!! feelings).  [...]

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NPR & Tell Me More tackle breastfeeding rates in the black community

November 25, 2009

On November 24th, 2009 guest host Jennifer Ludden at NPR’s Tell Me More hosted an interesting segment on breastfeeding rates among black women. She discusses the issue with author Kathi Barber*, journalist Jamila Bey, and television producer Dawn Porter. (transcript here) I embedded the clip at the bottom of the page. This was a really [...]

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Facebook Hypocrisy – Reflections of a Culture

November 12, 2009

A lot has been said about Facebook’s hypocrisy regarding the way they treat breastfeeding images and other images of partially or fully exposed breasts. You’d have to be living under a rock to not know about this if you are a part of the online breastfeeding community. That topic has been really well covered by [...]

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