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Another cartoon in the Bureau of Apologies series!
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Bureau of Apologies: Hillary Rodham Clinton
Half-baked apology
This cartoon introduces a new series, Bureau of Apologies. The series is a combination of wish fulfillment and distorted reality orientation for those of us who have spent way too much time staring past the newspaper and wondering if things might have been different if only …
After watching the media circus around Candidate Clinton during the last presidential election, we thought it might be a good idea to go back in time to correct an apology that completely missed the point of the original offense. It wasn’t about cookies, folks.
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If you need to refresh your memory of the Cookie Insult, you’ll find background in this 2015 Time Magazine article – which also includes the text surrounding the incendiary remark:
“The work that I have done as a professional, a public advocate, has been aimed…to assure that women can make the choices,” Clinton continued, “whether it’s full-time career, full-time motherhood or some combination.”
Images and permissions
- The photo of the First Lady speaking into the microphone is from the National Archives. It is in the public domain.
- The chocolate chip cookie recipe is from an archived copy of whitehouse.gov, as it existed during the Bill Clinton administration.
- The First Lady’s official portrait is accessible at the White House Historical Association. It is in the public domain.
- The wavy border is from clker.com.
Book feeding frenzy
Happy new year! To start out 2018, check out this new feature: Mama’s Bookshelf. Want to find the latest in titles on Reproductive Justice, maternity care, midwifery, community birth, and other topics of interest to Mama’s Got a Plan readers? See the Goodreads feed on the upper right side of this page.
NOTE: To read the full review of a book, you must click the book title, not the Goodreads link. You do not need a Goodreads account to view.
Happy reading!
Ginger Vee goes to the movies
Ginger Vee goes to the movies
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Movie: Dances with Wolves (1990).
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Ginger Vee goes to the movies
In the early 1990s, the video rental industry flourished. Nevertheless, as is shown here, people still went to the movies.
Just as media formats change yet produce the same effect (consumption!), plots may change yet reflect the same underlying ethos (consumption!).
Take a walk down memory lane with Ginger Vee, her chum Marla, and stick figure screen stars who exist uneasily in their three-dimensional garments.
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Movie: Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991).
Ask the Right Question: The Licensure Question — Friends of Michigan Midwives
Another cartoon in the Ask the Right Question series created for Friends of Michigan Midwives in early 2016! This one is especially pertinent because Mich. HB 4598, a bill to license Certified Professional Midwives, will receive a hearing in the Michigan Senate Health Policy committee on Tuesday, Nov. 29.
If you live in Michigan, or know someone who does, please make your way over to FoMM’s Facebook page for directions on how to help. Take note: If you are disheartened by the election, here’s a way to carry out five minutes of activism that can actually make a difference!
[Updated July 16, 2016, to add copyright designation.]
via Ask the Right Question: The Licensure Question — Friends of Michigan Midwives
News and links, May 4, 2014
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- Maternal mortality. Maternal mortality is decreasing for most of the world, but not for the US. What the Washington Post article doesn’t highlight are the terrible racial and socio-economic disparities in the mortality rate.
- Adoption through a Reproductive Justice lens. Is there a disconnect between the Reproductive Justice movement and the adoption advocacy community? One member of that community charges, “The feminist movement that let us down before? Well, it’s called reproductive justice now. And I want in.”
- Single Payer. Now that so much of the ACA has been implemented, perhaps we can mourn and renew our advocacy for the solution that should have been. Physicians for a National Health Program reflects on “Getting serious about single payer.”
- Death of Marsden Wagner. Marsden Wagner, M.D., supporter of mothers and midwives, passed away on May 1. Wagner was a perinatologist and perinatal epidemiologist, Director of Women and Children’s Health for the World Health Organization, expert witness, author, advocate, and critical thinker. His 2008 book, Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First, made sense of the deluge of lawsuits in the 1990s for bad outcomes following VBACs (vaginal birth after cesarean). Wagner showed clearly that the outcomes and resulting lawsuits were not a consequence of VBACs, but rather of poor management of VBACs – more specifically, due to the use of Cytotec as an induction agent in women with previous cesareans. He also wrote at length on the persecution of midwives. Wagner lived a long, productive, and generous life. May his memory be a blessing.
The new header image is courtesy of Denali Gere, a young artist who took my crude mockup of a concept and made it into something beautiful. Thanks, Denali!
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