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What Your Mother Has Done

A New York Times opinion piece about work/life balance (“A Toxic Work World“) is making the rounds and […]

Amanda Shaffer 21/09/2015 Current Events, Feminism, Girly Things, Mother Issues, Pages

Attention Cranky Hippie Ladies: you are promoting the wrong kind of feminism.

The power to define yourself rather than allowing society to define you by your gender or sexuality is […]

Amanda Shaffer 21/05/2014 Feminism, Pages, Politics

Why I Call Myself a Feminist

Labels are important. They tell you whats inside the can, they list the ingredients and they warn about […]

Amanda Shaffer 17/03/2014 Feminism, Politics

Radio

Anyone who knows me knows that I am Pro-Choice, Pro-Abortion and Pro-Reproductive Justice. The objections people raise about […]

Amanda Shaffer 14/02/2014 Feminism, Religion

Mom Club

My daughter asked the other day if I thought that being a mom was a big sacrifice because […]

Amanda Shaffer 19/01/2014 Pages

Mercy

The other night I watched a movie about lateterm abortion. It was a documentary called “After Tiller” that […]

Amanda Shaffer 10/12/2013 Feminism, Pages, Politics

For & Against

The other day I attended a lecture hosted by the ACLU where Connie Schultz and her husband Senator […]

Amanda Shaffer 18/10/2013 Politics

Glass Houses

As it gets harder and harder to cobble together the time I need to put coherent thoughts in […]

Amanda Shaffer 25/09/2012 Feminism, Religion

Stay-at-home

I was reading an article the other day on the “new trend” of dads being primary caregivers which […]

Amanda Shaffer 20/07/2012 Current Events, Pages, Politics

Bad Mommy

I work with a lot of highly accomplished women scientists who are invested in promoting gender equity in […]

Amanda Shaffer 07/06/2012 Feminism, Pages

Black Eye

I have a black eye. I woke up the other morning with a shiner like I caught a […]

Amanda Shaffer 12/03/2012 Politics

God & Libertarians

Just finished Penn Jillette’s book “God, No!: Signs you May Already be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales“, […]

Amanda Shaffer 23/01/2012 Pages

Mustard

Sometimes I am a sucker for design. I recently tossed out an ancient tin of Durkee dry mustard […]

Amanda Shaffer 19/01/2012 Uncategorized

Personal Choice

As much as it is on the tip of my tongue to rant about the idiotic and infuriating […]

Amanda Shaffer 19/12/2011 Feminism, Politics
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