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Art Monsters Book Club
a book club/reading group starting Feb 2023
Magdalena O!
Dec 13, 2022
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Sociability of Sleep
how I have come to love sleep with young children
Magdalena O!
Dec 6, 2022
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November 2022
Life is a window of vulnerability.
“Life is a window of vulnerability.” —Donna Haraway 8 month old O, is picking up bits of oatmeal and thawed berries with her burgeoning pincer grip…
Magdalena O!
Nov 15, 2022
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October 2022
To be alive – is Power.—Emily Dickinson
Hello gentle reader—I haven’t sent out a new entry since the end of July even though I write all the time. It feels like it’s been a few days and many…
Magdalena O!
Oct 31, 2022
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To be alive – is Power.—Emily Dickinson
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July 2022
I didn’t know I wasn’t given a history until I had my own children
“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”― Joan Didion In the fall of 2021, the vaccine passport became commonplace for most public spaces…
Magdalena O!
Jul 27, 2022
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On Abortion
I first realized the maniacal need to control women's desires looking at the inordinate fetuses on the pro-life (anti-choice) posters that covered the…
Magdalena O!
Jul 11, 2022
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On Abortion
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June 2022
On food delivery from friends: yes, here you go, I see you.
me two weeks after giving birth to O— It’s a snowstorm-warning February morning and a brimming cloth bag is dropped off on our stoop. “I see something…
Magdalena O!
Jun 20, 2022
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May 2022
That is how she finds you: on breastfeeding
The mother opened her mouth, waiting for her daughter’s breath to reach hers, to smell the milk stuck between ridges of her tiny tongue. It was dark so…
Magdalena O!
May 2, 2022
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That is how she finds you: on breastfeeding
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February 2022
How can a baby have a due date? It’s not a library book.
“Let yourself into the experience. See the baby and you together birthing. Am I clear, dear?” My Francophone midwife tries to get me out of my head. She…
Magdalena O!
Feb 24, 2022
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How can a baby have a due date? It’s not a library book.
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January 2022
On self-confidence and self-consciousness
The first time I notice S— (not as a newborn) playing with his belly on the floor I am flooded with emotions of how at ease he is. I stiffen. I am…
Magdalena O!
Jan 25, 2022
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Naming as the Basic Unit of Verbal Behavior
Earlier in the fall when we hadn’t yet began a search for a baby name—avoiding the acceptance of newborn care—a book spine with a handwritten typeface…
Magdalena O!
Jan 3, 2022
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December 2021
On baby movements: A snail shooting its love dart but missing its target
Blop. I’m reading em by Kim Thúy for a book review I’m due to do. Blurp. My belly shakes and a pointy appendage sticks out the right side. My insides…
Magdalena O!
Dec 7, 2021
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