Some Awesome Things

I get all of my awesome things from the internet. Here are some of this week’s most awesome:

Dawn is famous today. Her super essay about her open adoption is in a brand-new book called One Big Happy Family:18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love by Rebecca Walker.

Also Dawn-related, this post over at her blog: The Night My World Caved in Read it and cry.
And also this post over at Mama(e) in Translation: Skinny is NOT Beautiful Ditto.

I have a love-hate relationship when it comes to talking about body image with children. I can talk to adults about the fact that even skinny kids are harmed by adults calling attention to their body type, and I have called people out on their skinny nickname for their daughter before, but if one of my daughters comes to me expressing woe about her body, I will stutter and stammer and fall all over myself to try to undo what was said, ultimately feeling lost and powerless because I know that this body image stuff is not easily undone. I just shared with you two blog posts from two different grown-ass women to prove it. (That’s proof right? I mean, they’re blog posts! Two of them!) It is so hard to undo the things that are said to a person because of something as fundamental as their body. I mean, we can’t get away from our bodies. Ever.

Anyway, go read those two posts and then learn how to be white and privileged and anti-racist all at once at Thoughts from a Foster Family: Can We Talk?

I always cringe when I hear people say, “I’m not racist!” because we’re all racist a little bit. We are. We try not to be and we learn and then we do better. It’s ok. It’s better to admit it and try to move on and then keep learning to do even better.

Um, yeah, I just realized that I found all of those great posts on Dawn’s google share thingy or her Facebook links. This post is all about Dawn and her amazing ability to both write and read awesome things. Thanks Dawn!

It’s Thursday, you can’t expect coherence on Thursday. It’s pretty much the weekend. Goodbye.