Most educators, parents, adults would agree that this is a really hard time to be a teenager. When my own children were teens I kept reminding myself that they were at the chrysalis stage, in process of becoming beautiful butterflies and that everything, particularly in their brains was in the mush of reconstituting itself. Today's … Continue reading #DecDisplays – the chrysalis years
1808. The Napoleonic wars. In Ghent, a draft for the Emperor’s army is looming and the respectable Hoste family is in financial trouble. From the very first sentence, Ironhead, or, Once a Young Lady is the engaging story of the two oldest Hoste siblings, 18-year-old Constance ("Stance") and her entitled 14-year-old brother Pieter (Piers), whom … Continue reading #WorldKidLit Wednesday: Ironhead, or, Once a Young Lady
The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol Adams Vegan feminists have identified the ways in which gender influences the ways in which we commodify and exploit animals, mostly through the sexual exploitation of female animals in animal agriculture. For example, the dairy industry has successfully convinced people that milk comes naturally … Continue reading #Veganuary: The Sexual Politics of Meat
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