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The Problem With Breastfeeding in America & Lactation Disparities

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonMay 11, 2022

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonMay 11, 2022022842

When I decided to breastfeed my children, I had no idea how racialized breastfeeding had once been. I didn’t know that while breastfeeding had been looked down upon in America as a whole for decades, there was even more stigma...

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White Wellness Culture & Why It’s So Complicated for People of Color

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonApril 29, 2022April 29, 2022

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonApril 29, 2022April 29, 202204711

White women don’t own breastfeeding. I thought that was obvious and something that didn’t need to be explicitly stated. That was until I wrote an essay on the ways that white wellness culture has affected my parenting choices, and attributed...

Lifestyle

My White Girlfriends Inspired Me To Breastfeed My Latino Babies

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonDecember 2, 2017November 27, 2020

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonDecember 2, 2017November 27, 202002437

Despite the odds, I managed to breastfeed both of my babies for over a year each. It wasn’t easy, but it’s easily one of my biggest accomplishments. We faced many obstacles along the way, starting with the fact that I...

Lifestyle

Mom Defends Breastfeeding in Public: “Boobs Are Not Sexual”

Irina GonzalezNovember 30, 2017November 30, 2020

by Irina GonzalezNovember 30, 2017November 30, 202011732

It’s 2017 and you’d think with all of the advances we have made in feminism over the past few years and the hundred years beforehand that women wouldn’t be shamed on the regular for things that are natural. And yet,...