Ms Informed Newsletter | Motherhood, Bad Moms, and Being Touched Out
This week we talk about the link between motherhood and rape culture.
Shownotes
NYT on being touched out
Anne Helen Petersen interviews Amanda Montei
Amanda Montei’s substack newsletter: Mad Woman
The Cut on Amanda Montei’s book touched out
Glamour on the narrative that Sophie Turner is a bad mom
Slate on the movie Bad Moms
Minna Dubin’s 2019 NYT essay on Mom Rage
This week’s distraction
This week’s distraction is the situation in Sudan.
“Humanitarian officials say the widening conflict in Sudan has left them trying to “plan for the apocalypse” as aid supply lines are disrupted and more people are displaced both internally and across the country’s borders.
At least 5.4 million people have already been displaced by the fighting that broke out in April between the Sudanese armed forces, led by Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces loyal to his rival Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo – known as Hemedti.
As well as their armed power struggle, which is centred on the capital Khartoum, communal violence has erupted once again in the Darfur region, where Sudanese Arab groups have targeted the Masalit people.
“We’re essentially witnessing two separate conflicts,” said one aid official who wished to remain anonymous. “The first, which is getting a lot of attention, is between Burhan and Hemedti in Khartoum. The second, which is much more sinister, is what is happening in Darfur.”
“In some places, 70% of the population have fled, mostly Masalit,” the official said. “We are seeing IPC4 levels of malnutrition [the second highest rating].”
Read more in the happening in Sudan in the Guardian here
This week Madhvi celebrated
This week Madhvi celebrated the publication of her children’s book with a signing party! Thanks to everyone who came — and if you live in Berlin and still want a copy signed (xmas is coming!), feel free to message. I’m always happy to meet and write a personalised message in your book.
This week Rina read
This week Rina read '“Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa” This is a truly lovely book. Simple and charming. Follow along as a young girl goes to work in the second hand book store of her uncle in Tokyo!
This week’s inspiration
This weeks inspiration is Dorothy Hoffner, A 104-year-old Chicago woman is hoping to be certified as the oldest person to ever skydive after leaving her walker on the ground and making a tandem jump in northern Illinois. Hoffner first skydived when she was 100. What a woman! Read more about her here.
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