nicole ruiz

I’ve been stewing on this piece for the last two years: Why we need to Log Some Hours Holding Babies 🔗 in bio

Every woman must read this. Every man, too. I was very redpilled by pregnancy. I learned how little care and attention goes into women’s reproductive health. Madeleine outlines here how that same approach is the case while women are trying to conceive.

nice commitment device you've got there shame if we should systematically eliminate the actual commitment mechanism from it

Bowl with mice decoration, Nazca culture, dating from 100–500 AD. Currently housed in the collection of The Princeton University Art Museum.

I have to be honest, even if it gets me cancelled: nothing has turned me against the effective altruist crowd more than "shrimp welfare."

Highly-educated-motherhood is a high-skilled job: these moms are always debating and doing research about health and school and extracurriculars and tutoring and all sorts of stuff. The home becomes a legitimate space for female ambition. (Spoiler: as it always was historically)

this is fairly silly ofc but i think it's interesting as a signal of something about 1. the usually-tacit progressive model of sex as divorced, normatively and positively, from reproduction 2. the extent to which Sex Positivity has declined as an ideal for progressives

every time I return to nyc after travel I have a requisite 24 hour period of nyc dysphoria then it subsides

“I’m a homemaker” is an instantly awesome filter among most New Yorkers in my age cohort