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Are women’s and children’s liberation mutually exclusive?
A conversation with Sara Sadek on the ways our freedom is bound together.
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Fran Liberatore
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Sara Sadek
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BOOK CLUB CHAT: on the unviable village, bashing motherhood and where we put our rage
Also info on July's book & meeting poll
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Fran Liberatore
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I won't write about parenting without mentioning Palestine
On the erasure of Palestinians from parenting spaces
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Fran Liberatore
Burnout is inevitable, and also not normal
Happy Mother's Day, late, because we need so much more than A Day.
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Fran Liberatore
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Unschooling: A Beginner's Guide
What it is, and why it's less scary and more radical than you think
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Fran Liberatore
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Parenting the perfect child into existence
The assumptions of purity baked into parenting & educating respectfully
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Fran Liberatore
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Why I'm divesting from parenting
And I'm just treating children like people now. Also, the Parenting-Industrial complex, how capitalism birthed intensive parenting, and what about love?
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Fran Liberatore
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Domination begins at home
How unschooling, mothering and the genocide of Palestinians are connected
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Fran Liberatore
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Should we pay our kids to read?
Should we be paying our children at all?
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Fran Liberatore
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E1: "Tradwives aren't even trad" with Caroline J. Sumlin
S2 of my re-vamped pod begins today! I chat to Caroline J. Sumlin about tradwives, capitalism, whiteness and what's actually "traditional."
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Fran Liberatore
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Caroline J. Sumlin | Author
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Supporting children's rights in 2025
This is what protecting children really looks like.
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Fran Liberatore
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All of the best from 2024
Because "old" posts still get to be read.
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Fran Liberatore
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