The doll in this photo is called Azlynn and is one of my daughter’s favorite toys. She was a gift from the children’s grandparents who live in Swaziland, Africa so her arrival was more coincidence than strategic planning on my part.
When I was pregnant and thinking about raising children I thought about gender. How to raise a boy so that he didn’t get caught …
I won’t lie. Living in the US is feeling quite intense right now. I was just about adapting to the new realities of Covid when the Black Lives Matter movement exploded. And of course the very fact that I experienced it in that way speaks volumes about my white privilege – for so many people it’s something they’ve been grappling with day in and …