sourpatchsweetheart
Sour Patch Sweetheart
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First Popsicle of the Summer, sitting on the stoop of our low-income single bedroom apartment. The only wealth I’m showing off in my newsfeed is a wealth of love for this little guy right here!

Yep. That’s what I was thinking. That second picture looks like something that might have gone down in the backyard of my childhood home. Which was located in a tiny little logging town in the Cascade mountains with less than a thousand people, two mills, a single k-8 school (high schoolers bused out), a post office,

Thank you. That was bugging me too. It’s not a well known history on the mainland. (Hell, most Americans don’t even know the extent of the current US involvement in the Pacific or the difference between a compact of free association with the US, a commonwealth in political union with the US, a US territory, and a

Well, since you asked...My son is “half white”. His dad is indigenous Bolivian (very dark skin and hair) while I’m predominantly of Irish and Swedish heritage. Kid looks 100% white. Only his big barrel chest, tiny hips, and slightly wider nose/nostrils hint at any racial mixing. It upsets his dad that people won’t

As a low income single parent I’m very very familiar with concern trolling and I really think this public viewing of private moments issue is more nuanced than that. Why? Well, I’ve also got a degree in art that schooled me in the complex interaction between a creator’s intentions and the viewe’ s “gaze”. One of the

Low income single mother here. I didn’t seek out single parenthood but knew when my birth control failed that daddy was unlikely to stick around to help me raise my baby right. The biggest factor in my life (beyond wanting to be a parent, obviously) that made me comfortable in choosing to keep the pregnancy anyway is

THANK YOU!! That man was a legitimate living legend and he deserves far more than a bullet point at the very bottom of a dirt bag mostly bashing a black woman for not understanding the struggles he lived through and conquered. I get that this is a feminist blog and all but an evening listening to that man play, sing,

Ugh. I hope they do call you to the stand and you get a chance to set them straight. In public. With strong words. It’s the real word consequences of the Madonna-Whore complex that says you can’t be both a sexual being and a good mother. (And obviously naked=sexual for the dad in this case.) As a single parent who is

My college group porn watching was in a political science class called Art and Politics so the question at the end was “Is this free speech?” and was accompanied by a reading section on the history of censorship efforts and a documentary on the economy and working conditions of performers. Overall a much more

You’re not wrong. This TED talk about GoT and the War of the Roses just popped up on my fb newsfeed five minutes ago. Weeeird.

I know this will get buried in the greys but I just have to say I really really hate it when people refer to kids as not fully human. I don’t care if it’s a joke. We have a hard enough time recognizing the humanity in other adults who are capable of at least trying to communicate their inner mental and emotional lives

I read a book in college called How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev. It had a very interesting historical take on Irish and African American relations after the Civil War. The main idea was that in order for Irish immigrants to overcome prejudice against them and get jobs (many of them in law enforcement) they

Yeah, it’s one of those laws that’s so old school sexist it’s almost funny (but isn’t, of course). It actually worked out in my favor in the end though. The blank on the birth certificate has allowed me to deploy the ‘establish paternity and pay child support’ stumbling block on more than one occasion when bio dad

Yeah, I found out about my state’s law like this...when I was still in hospital trying to fill out the birth certificate for the newborn baby who was accidentally conceived before a long divorce process was finalized. As it was explained to me, it only affects women who are married at any time during their pregnancy.

Thank you for posting that. I haven't seen this show yet but having been active in Native communities before, I always pro "ask an Native person" about this kind of thing. White people really like to be offended on their behalf but most of the Native people I've known have a really great (and often dark) sense of

I bought 40 years of sunny days, a two disc 40th anniversary set, for my son so he could watch vintage Sesame Street and I could get a break from Elmo's World. It has that scene along with the other major 'life moments' of the human cast like Maria and Luis getting married. It's a lovely scene but weird to have thrown

It is totally normal for an elderly person, even one suffering from clinical dementia, to have cognitive good days and bad days. Long term memory lasts longer than short term memory. They can talk in great detail for over an hour about something that happened in 1967 but not remember what they had for breakfast.

That's solid advice. Especially when there isn't another adult there to tag-team in when I need to take myself out of the situation for a minute. I'd much rather give myself a time-out than yell at him (and then apologize for yelling which is probably pretty confusing for the kid even if it makes me feel better).