Motherhood

Raising Race-Conscious Children

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Raising Race-Conscious Children

Cup of Jo has been running for 13 years (!) so we’ve decided that every week, we’ll be highlighting one of the most popular posts from the past. Here’s one that’s more important than ever, originally published on October 3, 2016…

As a mother, I’ve always wanted my children be kind to everyone and accept people without biases or stereotypes. I figured that by being “colorblind,” or not calling attention to race, I was showing them that everyone was equal. But then I read a Washington Post article that explained that a colorblind approach may actually do more harm than good. To further educate myself, I spoke to Lori Taliaferro Riddick and Sachi Feris from the fantastic site Raising Race-Conscious Children, and here’s what they told me…

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Design

Have a Great Weekend.

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What are you up to this weekend? We’re giving each other haircuts! Wish us luck, it’s definitely harder than it looks. Have a good one, and here are a few fun links from around the web…

Camping? Dining out? Here’s how experts rate the risks of 14 summer activities.

Freezer wine.

Have you seen Never Have I Ever? The Netflix comedy is so funny and great.

I’ll be wearing these shorts all summer.

Tina Fey is turning 50, and here are 50 of her best moments.

Face mask street style in Brooklyn.

Made me laugh.

These bars are next up on our baking list.

Or these cookies!

What a lovely 280-square-foot apartment.

And thank you so much for all the comments on this post. They were really thoughtful and informative.

Plus, two reader comments:

Says Emily on becoming anti-racist: “I can’t recommend Harvard’s implicit bias test enough. EVERYONE has some implicit bias and if we aren’t aware of it or believe it can’t happen to us, then we can’t do anything to fix it. It’s free, anonymous and quick. I hope everyone takes it.”

Says Jen on becoming anti-racist: “When I was teaching 10th graders, we journaled about our greatest fears. Every single young man in my class wrote that they were afraid that the police would kill them. I can’t stop thinking that George Floyd was once a 10th grader in somebody’s class, too. Now, it is no longer enough for me to just try to be a nice white person.”

(Photo by Casie Giroux. Tina Fey link via Girls of a Certain Age.)

Style

A Week of Outfits: Rebekah Taussig

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Kansas City-based Rebekah Taussig is a writer, teacher, and the creator of the Instagram feed @sitting-pretty. When she was younger, Rebekah says, she used to cut her wheelchair out of photos. “There is this ingrained idea that a mobility aid clutters a photo, but now I want to show that a cane, walker, wheelchair — or whatever someone uses to navigate their space — is part of the look of that person in an aesthetically pleasing way.” Here are five outfits she wore in a week…

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