Pride Month 2022: ‘Last Night at the Telegraph Club’ by Malinda Lo
Throughout June, GeekMom celebrates Pride Month. Today’s book review is ‘Last Night at the Telegraph Club’ by Malinda Lo.
Continue ReadingThroughout June, GeekMom celebrates Pride Month. Today’s book review is ‘Last Night at the Telegraph Club’ by Malinda Lo.
Continue ReadingWhat a few weeks it’s been since our last Between the Bookends. GeekMom hopes we can offer you some support with our favorite recent reads.
Continue ReadingAfter an extended summer break, Between the Bookends returns. We hope you find something great to curl up with now that the nights are drawing in.
Continue ReadingWelcome to the first Between the Bookends column of 2018. We’ve made a few changes to make the site better for our readers and Between the Bookends has also changed a little.
Continue ReadingMy son asked me, “Why do we have International Women’s Day?” And frankly, I wasn’t sure I was bold enough to give him the honest answer.
Continue ReadingDoes the toilet paper roll go on forwards or backwards? What’s the big deal about the seat being up or down? These are the kinds of arguments we have fought over too long. It’s time for a third party to come in and show us new solutions that don’t rely on dichotomies!
Continue ReadingWhat would you do if you could pick a President and her entire Cabinet from all the female ficitional characters in sci-fi and comics? GeekMom Karen lists her fantasy team.
Continue ReadingOne of the things I like about sports is that it teaches us that race doesn’t matter.
Continue ReadingHere are five things Bremainers can take away from our favourite geeky passions to help process Brexit and what is to come.
Continue ReadingSam, as an adult, black male, is feeling the full brunt of deeply ingrained social prejudices. The weight of history. And, horrifyingly, he is losing to it.
Continue ReadingThis election season, are there political lessons we should learn from the Star Wars prequels?
Continue ReadingWe raise our children to be the bosses of their own bodies. We teach them to dress and wash and feed themselves, and to keep their private parts private. But if our children happen to be daughters, there’s an oft-neglected aspect of self-care that we must impart: Voting. It may seem strange to count […]
Continue ReadingThe most recent copy of New Scientist just made it to our house. I rarely get my hands on this weekly until my offspring have read it (which may be why dinner table discussions around here are too scientifically advanced for me). But I managed to sit down with the magazine over coffee this […]
Continue ReadingOne of the most fun books to talk about during Banned Books Week is the lovable, adorable And Tango Makes Three. Even extreme penguin cuteness cannot warm the frozen shell around a book banner’s heart. Why? Because the penguins are (gasp!) gay. If you don’t know And Tango Makes Three, it’s the true story of Silo […]
Continue ReadingI received a package of books for review several weeks ago, courtesy of Penguin Books. My eighteen-year-old, Brad, immediately picked up The Real State of America Atlas: Mapping the Truths of the United States by Cynthia Enloe and Joni Seager and thumbed through it. “This is going to be a good book,” he announced. Filled […]
Continue ReadingEarlier this month, GeekMom Kris Bordessa wrote about the story of a Michigan woman, Julie Bass, who was being prosecuted for having a front yard garden. The Bass family put in the garden after their lawn had to be torn up due to a sewer line that needed to be repaired. I’ve been following Julie […]
Continue ReadingMichelle Obama lives in arguably the most prestigious home in America. In 2009, she dug up a portion of the South Lawn and installed an organic vegetable garden to provide fresh produce for the White House kitchen. Short of the chemical companies who produce pesticides – definitely not allowed in an organic garden – who […]
Continue ReadingWhen my older son was little, he would come home from school and make a beeline straight through the house to the backyard swing set. We called it swing therapy: after a day of staying on task and holding in fidgets, he would desperately need to decompress. Rain, snow, sleet or hail, he’d be out […]
Continue ReadingThe number of American political geeks under age eighteen is predictably low. I mean, why should kids geek out about something they can’t even participate in? The better question is: Why shouldn‘t they? Kids aren’t allowed to vote, but that doesn’t mean they’re incapable of understanding what’s going on around them. Besides, kids are natural […]
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