I'm glad to hear all of the good news for JZ and Hec's family - birthday and preschool Matilda likes.
Erin, I admire the way you handle your sleep situation.
cute coworker confirmed dinner for Friday
I don't mean to push or anything, but if by the time I'll be coming to visit next year two won't be married and expecting, I might be very disappointed (Kidding! But you know, you just sound so cute together, in my head).
The Death Clock Is Counting Them: But Where Are These Women?
The best thing about living in a nationalist, past-socialist country, besides the pretty much good health care? Pre natal and post natal care are superb. The country wants me to reproduce.
I've been away lately because "shenanigans" happening with so called liberal, enlightened "left"(overs) in my country. [link] The last story is beyond disgrace. I'll quote myself in an email I sent to Hollaback group:
...after several cases of harassment and rape attempts of women during demonstrations went unreported and silenced, so that the "fight for peace won't get hurt". This "storm" brought the "feminist cat" out of the bag, so to speak, and showed why it's so important to have a strong feminist movement is Israel, with a clear, strong agenda of women's - all women's - rights in the holy land, unrelated to their religion or their ethnic origin. It's a struggle just to clarify why it's important in the first place, even within the "natural" habitat for women's rights, the liberal left. It's even more of a struggle for us, the Israeli Hollabackers, to explain ourselves why we should write about cases on which we were harassed by Palestinians. Even with the anti-racist policy and the veil of ignorance that Hollaback rightly demands and uses, non of us originally thought that we should write about such cases - yes, even when the readers don't know the identity of the harasser. Between the political reality and the specific nature of street harassment in Israel, we're writing a special article for the site that will cover these very delicate points.
I'm shocked and saddened to see how many liberal leftists, both men and women, are so eager to ditch the safety of women in both Israeli and Palestine societies, and act as if having peace will solve everything de facto. How many are willing to sacrifice the safety of my sisters and me, and order us "not to make a big deal about few stories", or to "let it be solved within the community", while they'll be out shouting if another "closed" community won't bring this out to the press and the courts. I can't even bear reading the comments anymore, in blogs I usually trust. I can't believe we're in a situation where it's almost impossible to be both "liberal-leftist" and a feminist.