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Why I Need to Raise Feminist Sons

This week, I was invited into my son’s fourth grade class to lead a lesson on gender. The teacher had been focusing his history lessons around women during WWII, so he asked me to combine my content around this topic. I decided to use some of my favorite children’s gender-positive entertainment, Free to Be You and... Read more »
By Juliet C. Bond,
December 18, 2014 at 9:22 am • 

Five Ways Eminem Uses Misogyny to Sell Records (Trigger Warning)

This is important. In class this week, a female student of mine insisted that men are always putting women down, that their expectations are too high and that they criticize the way women look and only value them as objects.  While this is a generalization, it can feel very true to women. But the reverse... Read more »
By Juliet C. Bond,
November 20, 2014 at 8:42 am • 
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    Juliet C. Bond is a writer and professor at Columbia College in Chicago. Her first book, "Sam’s Sister," was published in 2005, and has sold over 50,000 copies. She went on to collaborate with Newberry winner Joyce Sidman to publish the stage adaptation of "This is Just to Say." Juliet’s shorter works can be found in "The Prairie Wind," at storystudiochicago.com and citymusecountrymuse.com. Juliet serves as the Welcome Coordinator for The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in Illinois, and has had the pleasure of working under the tutelage of award winning authors including; Jane Yolen, Jane Hamilton, Laurie Lawlor and Audrey Niffinegger. She chose the name for this space as an homage to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony whose hard work on gender equality serve as daily motivation to continue fighting for girls and women everywhere.

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