In her essay in The Postcolonial Studies Reader, “First
Things First,” Kirsten Holst Petersen writes about her experience
attending a conference in Mainz on “The Role of Women in Africa.” She
recalls the young German feminists discussing the “radical feminist
solution” and debating their relationships with their mothers.
I’m not ashamed to say
that I woke up at 5:15 am on Friday to watch the royal wedding. For
anyone interested in plumbing the socio-political imagination of the
British this was a must see event.
I spent last night curled around my toddler, bowl in hand, waiting
for her to wake and vomit again. She had a miserable case of food
poisoning that kept us both in and out of sleep until the morning.
I was thinking about relaying this episode to a seminary friend who
recently asked me to “sell” him on the idea of children.
