Feminist parenting blogs.

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As I'm currently entertaining the idea of having a child, I've been collecting feminist parenting blogs.

On the one hand, feminists are more likely to be women, so the prevalence of "mother" over "parent" makes sense.  On the other hand, grr.  That's for a later post, though.

Anyways.

• Mothers for Women's Lib: "Feminism changes a mother, and motherhood changes a feminist – here is a place for us to talk about raising our children as feminist mothers, the challenges we face, or feminist issues which are especially important to us as mothers. As feminist mums, we have a unique take on this thing we call feminism, and we have a lot to say!"
• Raising My Boychick – Feminist Thoughts Inspired By Parenting A Presumably Straight White Male: "I'm a walking contradiction: knitting feminist fulltime parent, Wiccan science-minded woowoo massage student, queer-identified male-partnered monogamist, body-loving healthy-eating fat chick, unmedicated sane and stable bipolar. But it feels all-me."
• Rebel Raising: "This is a personal blog. I know. Awful, isn't it? It's mostly about mothering two small kids as someone who's a feminist, queer and environmental activist."
• Attached Feminist (infrequently updated): "1. To provide a forum for older women to share information and advice with younger women 2. To discuss the intersection of feminism and motherhood in America today 3. To promote awareness of Attachment Theory 4. To compile the wisdom of women of all life stages into policy recommendations 5. To get women-friendly policy ideas into the hands of policy makers"
• Free-Range Kids: "So I started this site for anyone who thinks that kids need a little more freedom and would like to connect to people who feel the same way. We are not daredevils. We believe in life jackets and bike helmets and air bags. But we also believe in independence. Children, like chickens, deserve a life outside the cage. The overprotected life is stunting and stifling, not to mention boring for all concerned. So here's to Free Range Kids, raised by Free Range Parents willing to take some heat. I hope this web site encourages us all to think outside the house."
  - This one is not explicitly feminist, but it is still tremendously useful and valuable.
• Daddy Dialectic: "Daddy Dialectic started as Jeremy's journal of his experience as a stay-at-home dad. Today Daddy Dialectic is a group blog by and about dads who embrace caregiving and egalitarian relationships, a definition of fatherhood that we believe is more in tune with the landscape of 21st Century America."
  - I am super-interested in this one, because Josh is interested in being a stay-at-home parent, and I want lots and lots of paths for how to dismantle the "mother == nurturing; father == provider" nonsense.
• blue milk: "blue milk is part 'blue stocking' and part 'mother'. It is a journal of experiences. I write about what's on my mind."

If you have others, please feel free to share.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.