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Why is the World So Focused on Girls? Malala Day!

. This is cross-posted from The Million Moms Challenge, which is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation and ABC News along with more than 30 partners, to share global health issues for mothers and babies. I am the Community Manager–however all opinions expressed here are my own. I’d love to see you again. Please subscribe via email or RSS. Or [...]

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Do you remember polio or have dear ones who were affected?

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I’m Over It

I am over supermarket tabloids and trashy magazines. I am over pages and pages of vitriolic comments on news websites from anonymous members of the “public”, no matter what the issue. I am over deadlocked budget negotiations and self absorbed politicians. I am over a teetering European economy sending constant shock waves through a jumpy [...]

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Hey Mr. DJ, Turn Down That Stereotype!

The labels we so easily apply and attach meaning to, feel increasingly ridiculous and limited; frustrating in their inability to tell the whole story of a person. It’s much easier for everyone if we stay in our classifications. All this crossing over into different segments; it ruins our sound bite politics and mass generalizations. Heaven [...]

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When You Wake Up A Mother…

You Wake Up the World Last week ten bloggers traveled with Bono’s ONE.org to Kenya, to experience for themselves the reality of mothering in Africa. How much reality can you experience when you are a middle class, educated, American? When Heather Armstrong of Dooce.com went to Bangladesh last month with Christy Turlington’s “Every Mother Counts” [...]

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Because Every Mother Counts, Every Day

It’s Not Enough Cards, flowers, the ubiquitous breakfast in bed… coming to a household near you this Sunday morning! It is a beautiful and important thing to celebrate mothers. But you know what’s coming next. It is not enough. It’s not enough to give mothers a Hallmark day once a year and denigrate, discriminate and [...]

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International Women’s Day: Talking Cancer and How to Kick It’s Butt Globally

March 8th is International Women’s Day. Over at www.themotherhood.com I am joining a conversation with the American Cancer Society’s global team to talk about the impact of cancer on our lives and on the lives of women worldwide. From www.themotherhood.com, “We know cancer touches all of us. We’ll share our stories about cancer and our [...]

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I Am Mad As Hell

Have you counted how many google results come up when you search “leadership men vs women”? 37,700,000 at time of writing. The fact that the default search variable that pops up includes “vs” gets us immediately to the nub of the issue. If you change the “vs” to “and” it leaps to 49,000,000 results. But [...]

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