Food For Thought Books located in downtown Amherst, MA presents, Cambridge resident and Wampanoag artist & author Robert Peters, February 24 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. Mr. Roberts will be reading from his recently published book Da Goodie Monsta .
The story follows Shaka on his quest to track down the Da Goodie Monsta (the monster that brings good dreams to children), because the monster no longer visits him in his sleep.
“After days of moping around, Shaka decides to go to the mountains where the monster lives and ask him why he never comes. The monster eludes Shaka for days as the little boy chases him around the village. Finally, Shaka sees the monster in his sleep, and the monster wisely tells him, ‘Go to the dream and the dream will follow.’ ”
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I know for many of you this is old news, but it was recently brought to my attention that Facebook was removing photos of women breastfeeding from their website, the powers that be consider them obscene. Maybe it’s because I grew up in Woodstock, land of peace, love, and happiness, a place where naked boobies abound, or perhaps its because the topic of breastfeeding rarely comes into play in my day to day life, but I was rather taken back by this. I have seen plenty of boobage on Facebook and none of it as productive as breastfeeding, it was just boobage for the sake of boobage. I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that much, Susannah Breslin recently posted about a group of female bloggers who were offended by the American Apparel ads on her website that featured some nipple action and she writes a sex blog.
How is breastfeeding obscene? Were they doing it in whips and chains? In leather chaps? Parent Dish reports, “Facebook has responded by saying that they aren’t removing photos of breastfeeding, but merely anything that shows an exposed breast (which violates their Terms of Use). However, many mothers say they’ve had photos removed in which no breast was exposed — leading many to wonder about the site’s real intentions. Others who have been banned for posting breastfeeding photos have been told by Facebook that their accounts won’t be re-instated under any condition — even though the photos have been removed from their profiles.”
I understand the premise of their Terms of Use, and the need to keep the website free of pornography, but there is a clear distinction between pornography and breastfeeding. To show your support of the all mighty booby, and the breast feeding mommies of Facebook join, “Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!-(Official petition to Facebook)”.
For more information check out these articles
Parent Dish
Breastfeeding 123
USA Today
