Role Reboot

The Feminist Case For Teaching Home Economics

This originally appeared on The FBomb. Republished here with permission. Teaching young men and women how to care for themselves ensures their self-sufficiency.  Home Economics, renamed Family and Consumer Sciences in 1994, had its heyday in the mid-1900s. It was taught in almost all schools and offered as a major in college. Unfortunately, despite being conceived […]

The Moment I Became My Mother

Becoming your mother is often unavoidable. But is it always a bad thing? Something terrible happened this year right before my 38th birthday: I became my mother. I was just standing in my kitchen cutting up a cantaloupe. Isn’t this something women face in their 50’s? Or after they have their own kids? I swore […]