Healthcare
Eve & Pandora & Abortion & Me
There is no hope in controlling the lives and bodies of women.
Meg Conley
Hi, my name is Meg. I create Pocket Observatory, a not-for-profit attention reclamation project.
Authoritarianism
I guess we're burning books now
The answer is more books. Not fewer. Always.
Authoritarianism
Tilting Towards Hope
If enough needles tip away from Trump, my table and the people around it shift back into a world I can understand.
Children's Rights
Get to Work, Children
"Only poor kids have to work to have fun."
Care Work Capitalism
No Time to Care
A powerful father openly living for his children may not be cinematic, but it’s rare enough to be news.
Platforms
Because I Could Not Stop For Posting, an Instagram Elegy
Journalists need Twitter. Does a mom need Instagram?
Patriarchy
Many Lost, Few Found
While we thread theories online, the bones of mothers, sisters and daughters wait to be found.
Childhood
I've Slept with my Baby Blankie for 36 Years
I could be embarrassed about my baby blanket. Instead, I'll tell you everything it's taught me.
Care Work Capitalism
The One Thing That Shocked Me About LulaRoe
As a Mormon mother, I'd gotten used to being sold MLMs. I didn't think I could be shocked anymore! I was wrong.
Motherhood
Many Happy Returns: A Birthday on September 11
My daughter was born on 9/11. People said I should tell her she was born on the 9/10 instead.
White Supremacy
By Design
White communists, socialists, feminists, and capitalists tried to engineer society through kitchen design.
ADHD
The Starts and Ends of Creation
As the tide rises, the effectiveness of my ADHD medication descends.
Empire
Fill Every War Plane with Refugees
We sent planes to Afghanistan full of troops, guns and maladapted intention. They always came back hollow. This time send them empty and bring them back full.
Children's Rights
Tree of Life
Americans are refusing vaccines because they've forgotten that it's natural for children to die of infection disease.
Home
Emotional Support Kitchen
It's a comfort to gain so much control over an outcome. Even when that outcome is one single roasted carrot.
Motherhood
Mommies of Instagram
They weren't being paid for care work, they were being paid for their online depiction of care work.
Liberation
Round Dance
We dance holding hands because we are all on this journey together.
Entropy
Heat Domes + Fire Crumbs
Pregnant during a once in a lifetime heat wave that happens twice every summer.
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