Chanel Dubofsky
By Chanel Dubofsky
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Life Avital Norman Nathman on ‘Good Mother Myth’
In “The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood To Fit Reality” (Seal Press, 2014), editor Avital Norman Nathman asks the question: “What does it mean to be a good mother?” Contributors, including Joy Ladin, Jessica Valenti, Sarah Tuttle Singer and Jennifer Baumgardner reflect on the realities of motherhood and combat the myth of the “Pinterest perfect”…
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Life Who Harasses Women on the Street
It’s getting to the point where I can feel it in my posture. The inevitability of street harassment makes my shoulders tense up before I even leave my house. I don’t make eye contact on the street, ever, but especially with men. I wear headphones all the time anyway, but because of them, I probably…
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Life Why I Love ‘Teen Mom’
Tonight, MTV will conclude the first season of “Teen Mom 3”. For those of you not aware of this corner of the television universe, “Teen Mom” is the spinoff of MTV’s documentary style show “16 and Pregnant”, which follows one girl per episode through 5-7 months of her experience of pregnancy and parenting. “Teen Mom”…
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Life Instead of Shul, Escorting at an Abortion Clinic
It’s more or less the same scene every Saturday morning: A car service pulls up in front of the women’s health clinic where I escort. It pauses, drives further up the street and turns around. The woman inside pays the driver, then studies the crowd of 20 or so protestors praying loudly in front of…
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Life Facing the Most Uncomfortable Moments
A few years ago, I went to a Rosh Hashanah meal at the home of a friend. It was lovely, until the moment when my friend’s father asked, “So, Chanel, where’s your family spending the holiday?” I felt that familiar cold and burning sensation in my stomach, which generally accompanies these totally innocuous questions for…
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Life Yes, Really, I’m Sure I Don’t Want Kids
In her recent Time Magazine piece, “Having It All Without Having Children,”, Lauren Sandler spoke to women and couples about their decision not to have children in the context of social pressure and statistics (19% of women aged 40-44 have no children, which is almost double the percentage from 30 years ago, according to the…
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Life A Male Feminist Speaks Out
Can men be feminists? If so, what does it look like? A recent spate of articles like this one at Policy Mic, this one at On The Issues and this one at Slate tackled these questions. But I wanted to find out more, so I decided to use social media to find a feminist man…
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Life Fearlessly Leaning In
The “What Would You Do if You Weren’t Afraid?” Tumblr is the latest project from Lean In, the global community born out of Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg’s book of the same title. The blog is inspired by studies showing that although women are graduating college with higher GPAs than their male peers, they are avoiding…
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