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Chronicling Joy Amidst the Struggle

You Deserve To Rest Too

Podcast Episode 1: Evolutionary Mismatch, Communal Living, and Doing Uncomfortable Things

I don’t want to live in a lava tube on Mars

10 Sleep Stories from Real Moms

Let's assume bed-sharing is safe: so what?

Crappy Sleep Is An Ancient Feature of Humanity

Breastfeeding hunter-gatherer moms claim they aren't tired

Audio post! Introducing the hunter-gatherers, Part 3

Is religion good or bad for moms?

An evolutionary argument for not buying a lot of shit today

Humans hate being told what to do. That’s probably been the case for at least 300,000 years.

The Truth Is, I’m Just So Damn Lonely

Does Support for Modern Moms Matter?

Audio post! Introducing the hunter-gatherers, Part 2

Who Helped Mom, and How Much, in Our Evolutionary Past

Audio post! Introducing the Hunter-Gatherers, Part 1

An Ode to the McDonald’s PlayPlace

What does feminism mean to me?

How did this happen?

“Don’t be dependent on anybody for anything”

Craft and ritual are ancient facets of the human experience

My peer-reviewed paper is out!!!

Let’s talk about JD Vance’s Grandma

What’s the deal with crunchy moms voting right?

Hunter Gatherer FAQs

Emily Oster, Bari Weiss, and the perils of being a woman on the internet

Introducing the hunter gatherers (and the crazy anthropologists who study them), Part 3

Introducing the hunter gatherers (and the crazy anthropologists who study them), Part 2

MAD ORCA is becoming MOTHERHOOD UNTIL YESTERDAY

Introducing the hunter gatherers (and the crazy anthropologists who study them), Part 1

Right Wing “Pro-Family” Rhetoric is Based on a Fundamental Misunderstanding of What is Natural for Our Species

Take two: equality doesn’t mean sameness

Stop saying feminism is about “choice”

Normalizing career breaks and flex work

How to end the mommy wars

How the hunter-gatherer model can inform current politics on childcare and family leave

The Olympics are kind of f*cked up

Stars, fire, and thoughts on what it means to be a human

Empowered Mothering: What is It?

The joy of sleeping with your children

Do mothers who bed-share sleep better?

How to teach your kids to share, lessons form the Aka

Object obsession and sibling rivalry

The Orca

Motherhood metaphor competition

100,000 years ago, good help was not so hard to find

What counts as work?

What do Anne Lamott and Emily Oster have in common?

A long break can give you clarity

Breaking news: French children are naughty too!

Is motherhood better in France?

Let children be children, or, the pasta dinner from hell

Mothering is a learned skill, not an instinct, and we shouldn't be learning it from books

The sorry state of motherhood in post-industrial societies

Prologue: the hardest day of my life

Do we space our children too closely in contemporary post-industrial society?

Your kid will be fine. Will you?

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