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Not All Moms are Good Moms: Are You Watching Bates Motel?
By Laura LaVoie This week was the return of A&E’s horror prequel series Bates Motel. I came late to the Bates party, but now I have binge-watched the first two seasons on Netflix. Each only has 10...
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Remembering Selena
By Karen Malone Wright It’s really weird how selective my husband is about loving a movie enough to watch it every time it’s on. Me, I am an only child, which is generally synonymous with TV-lovin’...
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Are ‘Crotch Watermelons’ Yesterday’s ‘Crumbsnatchers?’
By Karen Malone Wright Let’s start with the three things every reader should know about this blog and me: 1) I launched The NotMom in part because I believe women without children by choice and by...
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Queen Latifah as the Empress of the Blues: Bold, Bi-Sexual & Childless
By Karen Malone Wright I discovered Bessie Smith after falling in love with the soundtrack to Lady Sings The Blues, Diana Ross’ 1972 star-turn as the legendary, drug-addicted singer Billie Holiday. As...
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Pop Culture Exposes America’s Sin of Involuntary Sterilization
By Laura LaVoie After the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron, people have been talking about the story of Black Widow, aka Natasha Romanoff, and her training in a Russian assassins program. It turns...
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Jurassic World: Way to Reinforce Gender Stereotypes, Hollywood
By Laura LaVoie Let me start by saying that in general, I enjoyed Jurassic World. It was exactly the movie that I expected it to be, with action, adventure, and dinosaurs. The story picked up in real...
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Just When We Need a Watchman, Harper Lee Is Back
By Karen Malone Wright Surely you’ve noticed that an 89-year-old NotMom is setting the literary world on fire, publishers, critics and readers alike. It’s Harper Lee, author of the 1960 masterpiece, To...
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Dear CBS, Bring Bernadette Into The Big Bang Theory’s Real World
By Laura LaVoie If you are a fan of CBS’ hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory, you already know you’re not alone. The show is so popular that the network signed a a history-making deal guaranteeing new...
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A Secret Pregnancy Makes ‘The Bishop’s Wife’ a Holiday Horror Story
By Karen Malone Wright I have friends of all races and varied religions who enjoy Christmas-themed movies on TV every December. Me, I love certain special broadcasts so much that I watch them during...
View ArticleKrampus: The Family-Friendly, Childfree, Christmas Horror Movie
By Laura LaVoie Wait, what? Krampus. The Christmas devil. Santa’s evil sidekick. He has become quite popular in America over the last few years. Everyone wants in on the Krampus action. So much so that...
View ArticleWriting my Child-Free Reality: Crowdfunding from Page to Screen
Guest Post by Olivia Gadson I am an actress and writer living in Los Angeles. I’ve written a web-series titled Non-Moms, inspired by the pregnancy of my younger sister. When I told people about my...
View ArticleTwisty Crazy February TV Relies On Women’s Decisions About Having Children
By Karen Malone Wright “February sweeps” is the annual ratings period when broadcast and cable TV gets exceptionally good. In 2015, a record-number of eyes are on FX and The People v. O.J. Simpson:...
View Article2016 TV’s Fictional Child-Free Women: Bold Supergirls
By Laura LaVoie I was going to write about Bernadette from CBS’ The Big Bang Theory being the latest TV character, in a long line of TV characters, to announce they were pregnant. Her particular...
View ArticleBig Screen Women: Too Much Ado About Moms
By Karen Malone Wright Around the globe, US to UK, Mexico to Japan, and official tallies of women without children are rising. German media says that government “agonizes” over the fact that 30% of its...
View ArticleChildless Women in Medieval Times: Nuns, Saints and Perhaps, A Knight
By Karen Malone Wright Longtime readers may know that I am about Game of Thrones all day long. There’s a tiny handblown glass dragon “flying” in my office window. Seriously. According to a Reddit post,...
View ArticleCelebrating the Spotlight on Childless & Childfree Women
By Karen Malone Wright Are you weirded out by Friday the 13th? The superstition never bothered me much. Not even when I owned black cats. It even has its own name: friggatriskaidekaphobia. OK. Don’t...
View ArticleIn Shondaland, Modern Women Are Bad Ass, Self-Aware, Dream Chasers
By Karen Malone Wright Anyone who knows me well knows that I am a proud citizen of Shondaland, which encompasses ABC-TV’s 2016 Thursday night (Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder)....
View ArticleFinding Dory’s “Lesbian Couple”: Bad Timing for a Non-Controversy
By Karen Malone Wright I am so danged happy to report that I have my tickets for Finding Dory and in 3D, too! Not on the 6.17.16 premiere date, but darned close. Through a post on The NotMom Facebook...
View ArticleStuff NotMoms Like: Intergalactic Hug A Monster Day
Today’s post is brought to us by the letter M and the Stuff Monsters Like haunted mansion and blog laboratory where NotMom Sarah Giavedoni tirelessly catalogs all the things that Monsters actually...
View ArticleThirty Years Later, The Handmaid’s Tale Is Still A Feminist Nightmare
By Laura LaVoie I remember the first time I held the book in my hands. The ratty, paperback cover was heavily creased and threatening to fall off. The book had been discarded into my hands with a...
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