Author Archives: Maia

Step by Step

Posted on September 20, 2007 by Maia

I was reading about abortion and birth control int he 1930s, and I read this quote: I have three living well grown loving daughters and have always had a reasonable rest between, thanks due entirely to my husband who never … Continue reading →

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Review: No Future For You: Part 1 (SPOILERS)

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Maia

I’m in. I was undecided about whether the comic book was ‘Buffy’. I accepted it was cannon, Joss says goes. But I just wasn’t sure whether I was going to treat it like Buffy. I’m not a comic book person, … Continue reading →

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The Greatest?

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Maia

When I post New Zealand centred posts here I usually do a lot of translation, explaining things that aren’t well known outside of this corner of the world. I’m not going to do that this time, it’s just too complicated … Continue reading →

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Feminism, sexism, etc | 3 Comments

A mistake I hope to only make once

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Maia

I’m going to retell a story I’ve written about before. A few years back some friends of mine dragged me to a feminist meeting at the house of a woman I didn’t know, although I realised when I got there … Continue reading →

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Abortions also make women skinnier….

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Maia

The Health Select Committee has just recommended extending paid parental leave to six months, to encourage breast feeding. As a supporter of paid parental leave (or, more accurately, as someone who believes that paid parental leave doesn’t go nearly far … Continue reading →

Posted in Breastfeeding & Lactivism, Fat, fat and more fat, Gender and the Body | 5 Comments

Teacher's on strike

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Maia

I have very fond memories of teachers’ pay negotiations. My sixth form maths teacher was a staunch unionist and also very distractable. We could get a good half hour off calculus with a well-timed question like “What’s happening with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Class, poverty, labor, & related issues, Feminism, sexism, etc | 95 Comments

Money and Blood

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Maia

What I mind, of course, is that my time is getting short, that I won’t see my youngest grandchild grow up — those things that you’re gonna miss. I remember my father feeling like that. I have a poem about … Continue reading →

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Feminism and prisons

Posted on August 23, 2007 by Maia

There’s a really interesting post at Feministe on tensions between feminist attitudes towards violence against women and a radical (or liberal, or progressive) analysis of the prison system. It’s certainly been a tension I’ve felt as I’ve cheered some men … Continue reading →

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If only people would just die of the shame like they're supposed to

Posted on August 22, 2007 by Maia

While I write a bit about bodies, fat and ‘the obesity epidemic’ I don’t write that much about the health aspects of this. Mostly because I largely find them irrelevant. Other people can do very good jobs of proving that … Continue reading →

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What could be more of a challenge?

Posted on August 18, 2007 by Maia

Project Runway has got everything you’d want in a reality show, interesting challenges, weird people and a look at a different world. In the most recent episode here in NZ the challenge was to design for another contestant’s mother or … Continue reading →

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