"We need to teach our
kids about slavery and civil rights, but we also need to help them see
the rest of the picture: People of color are beautiful, powerful, smart,
talented, and accomplished."
"We thought about all the cultures that favored boy babies, and wanted to offset that. Smash the patriarchy, and all that.
And
we both appreciated how, currently, it’s a lot easier to raise a female
to be whoever she wants to be (quiet or loud, wild or bookish,
beautifully embodying every contradiction). Raising males this way is
important work too, but it sounded harder, and we are lazy.
He leaned down to her, looked her in the eye and, just above
a whisper, said, “Don’t tell my wife; she wouldn’t like that. I’m a one-woman
man.” Read the rest on Medium!
Well, we went to Pride last weekend, and Tzivia was really taken with the drag queen who was MCing the Pride performances. So we watched a bunch of YouTube videos featuring drag queens, starting with Kids Meet a Drag Queen:
She was really enjoying herself, as she's very into performing right now, and it was cool for her to see a kind of performance art she'd never seen before.
We were watching a faceoff between two drag queens, a clip from RuPaul's Drag Race, and I was trying to explain to her about contest TV shows, about contests in general. We really haven't stressed the ideas of "winning" or "losing." (When we play Candyland, whoever makes it to the Candy Castle first is like, "C'mon, everybody, come party with me at the Candy Castle!") Her main contexts for contests are the watermelon-eating contest from last year's 4th of July, and the little green peas on bikes in a "race" in the book LMNO Peas.
Anyway, I thought I'd explained contests well, but her response was,
"So if the judges don't like the performance as much, then that's the person who dies?"
