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By Noah Boonov I’ll be the first to admit that I’m addicted to my phone. I’ve always been addicted to technology. I’m embarrassed when my phone gives me a “Weekly Screen Report” and it says that I’ve been on for almost 8 hours a day. I know you can turn off the report, but perhaps […]
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The Commodification of Pregnancy
By Noah Boonov A video of a family revealing the sex of their baby goes viral online. Each month, a young mother captures the journey through pregnancy on TikTok. A YouTuber hits one million views on their baby’s name reveal video. These posts are not uncommon for those who use social media daily. What was […]
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New Collection on Feminist Mothering
Congratulations to Ta[l]king Care: Family Blog Lines co-author Fiona Green for her co-edited collection Coming into Being: Mothers on Finding and Realizing Feminism with Demeter Press. The collection explores how becoming and being a mother can be shaped by – and interconnected with – how mothers realize feminism and/or become feminists. Becoming a mother may also […]
By Noah Boonov Previously on this blog, I’ve been open about what it was like growing up online. One of the reasons I spent many hours on Twitter and Tumblr as a kid and teenager was perpetuated by my love for YouTube. I’ve consumed hours upon hours of videos. I used to stay up until […]
By Noah Boonov On a whim, I applied to be part of a Digital Theatre Creation program this past winter through a company in Barrie, Ontario called Talk Is Free Theatre. I was lucky enough to be chosen as a participant and the program finished in March. Over the course of this four-week program, I […]
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Celebrating Trans Day of Visibility
by Fiona Green https://familybloglines.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/TransDayofVisibilityHearth.png Thinking of transgender folx and transgender families on this International Transgender Day of Visibility. The world is a hard place for those outside of the patriarchal cisgender gender binary. You are seen and you are loved.
One of our blog authors, Fiona Joy Green, has been honoured by being chosen to join a group of eight REMARKABLE MANITOBA WOMEN honoured for International Women’s Day by CBC Manitoba. Catch her interview with Laurie Hoogstraten during the drive home program, “Up to Speed”. Fiona talks about writing and mothering, and also defines intersectional […]
By Noah Boonov When I was a little kid, it was hammered into my head that under any circumstances “Do not talk to strangers online” and “Don’t believe everything you read on the internet”. I will never forget watching ‘The North American House Hippo’ commercial (I choose to believe that they ARE real). These phrases […]
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Mothering and Motherhood on the Home/Front
By Fiona Green and Jaqueline McLeod Rogers We’re excited to be presenting at this year’s IAMAS conference, Mothering and Motherhood on the Home/Front, which aims to “examine the importance of home, mothering, and motherhood in its multiple meanings.” Our presentation “Parenting and technology in blog and book: contextualizing familybloglines.com and Parenting/Internet/Kids in current scholarship and online” explores […]
By Toni De Guzman and Jaqueline McLeod Rogers TONI: With the advances of technology, privacy is being compromised to a greater extent through tracking-based applications such as Find My, Life360, and others. How does this affect parental relationships with children? Some parents may think they are protecting their children by tracking their activity, but in […]