VOX Part 2

2009-11-22T04:43:28Z

Ok, it's time for me to be a grown up blogger and move to a platform that actually lets me work properly. I'll keep this Vox blog up as an archive, but I will be moving to WordPress. I'd love you all to stay in touch, we've been friends for a ...

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Twilight

2009-11-21T23:54:55Z

From your album: "60 Days of Quotables" “As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aw...

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Vox: My Problem Child

2009-11-21T21:41:57Z

Just so that everyone knows .... some people have been writing to my regular email address to advise VOX is not confirming new registrations, sending internal mail, group invites or messages and is not updating via email notifications. I've t...

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Will Stupak Rock My World?

2009-11-20T03:10:25Z

Dear fellow social workers, women and other important people, I am writing this post today because I find myself bombarded with US (and other) media about the recent health care reform in America. I must begin this by saying, I am a Canadian c...

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Stupak: Motherhood Is Not For Sissies .....

2009-11-19T06:55:13Z

"Motherhood: the only life sentence without chance at parole you can receive without committing a crime". I read that quote in recent blog post, Motherhood In America, over at RH Reality Check. The author, Anat Shenker, points out that Motherh...

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Prevention Not Prescriptions Tuesday

2009-11-18T22:12:36Z

Cool, got my Are you Ready To Be Happy article linked up in the Kathleen Show Blog, Prevention Not Prescription section! Check her blog out, its chocka with interesting articles! Prevention Not Prescriptions: Tuesday, November 17 - The Kathleen...

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Miles Aldridge: Numb Mummy

2009-11-16T09:21:26Z

I've been speaking a bit to the social construction of motherhood, and came across a Vogue Italia editorial, The Vagaries of Fashion. If you click the link you can see the entire editorial. I think what is really interesting about photographer,...

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Scapegoats

2009-11-15T07:38:23Z

Scapegoat In Biblical times, the Scapegoat was an important community ritual, whereby a litany of the sins and tribulations of the tribe were recited, and symbolically laden onto the back of a goat. The goat was then released into t...

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Mark Sichel, You've got to be kidding me ....

2009-11-14T04:02:44Z

Ever have one of those cyber, 'you have got to be kidding me' moments? I just did. I found the Mark Sichel advertisment below ... yeah, the Mark Sichel I just finished taking to task in my last post. Remember how I said I was grateful I didn't ...

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Mark Sichel, Burning Moms in the Town Square?

2009-11-14T02:44:36Z

As many will be aware, I have been hard at work on my research about family estrangement. As a part of my research I do what every good researcher does ... I trawl Google looking for other writers, books, people who share the interest. As suc...

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