What an awe-inspiring, beautiful, truly amazing world our daughters live in;

What fantastic and previously unimaginable opportunities our young women have.

In most of the world today we can govern, judge, rule, write and compete as equals
So why, oh why does 21st century girlhood (and motherhood) seem so challenging?

Why are more of our daughters’ self-harming, starving themselves, crumbling under stress, researching celebrity booties and not brain surgery?

Why are dads still refusing to call themselves feminists?

Why are childhood commodities more genderised and divided than ever?

Let’s question why so many mothers are still bogged down by the drudgery of housework and child-rearing when so much female-friendly work-life legalisation exists? Why are so many mothers stalling at those glass ceilings in the sky?

Empowering girls to use their strengths

How can we, as parents male and female, show our daughters, nieces, granddaughters and friends the true beauty of this bright and promising world still overshadowed by everyday sexism, gender inequality, materialism and unrealistic and destructive portrayals of womanhood.

“Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”

GD Anderson

She’s got the whole world in her hands…

What a World for a Girl!

Let’s start with a blog about how amazing we, women, are AND how absolutely incredible this tiny green and blue blob of a planet is! How we should work to preserve it and serve Mother Earth.

Let’s encourage girls from every culture to travel, to learn about other cultures and see the incredible strength of women around the world.

“The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example. If they see their mothers and other women in their lives going forward despite fear, they’ll know it’s possible.”

Gloria Steinem

Girls can explore and be as adventurous as boys.

Let’s be honest with our children. Show them inequality where it exists. Provide them with the intellect to challenge it. Give them the tools to change what they can.

A simple message of feminism

Let’s empower parents to show their daughters and sons the world through equal and fair eyes.
For over ten years now, I’ve had a tatty old postcard taped to my fridges. It’s short but powerful. It reads:

We will meet all of us women of every land
We will meet in the center, make a circle
We will weave a world web
To entangle the powers
That bury our children

(Text excerpted from a poem in Sing a Battle Song: Poems by Women in the Weather Underground 1975)

An incredible image don’t you think?

Changing perceptions and achieving equality shouldn’t be as hard as this

Family travel with a twist of feminism

I am just one insignificant mother and teacher but at 35, with barely a credential to my name but a super smart  2 year old daughter and an intelligent and sporty 4 year old boy who already talks in terms of gender, I think it’s finally my turn to start weaving my own part of that web. My turn to start entangling those powers, those embedded beliefs that trap our children (and ourselves).

This travel blog will follow my family’s journey (both geographically and spiritually) as we learn about feminism and fairness; about activism and inspirational female adventurers, about amazing women from different cultures and countries and above all, as I attempt to be a strong female role-model for my globally raised children.

Life’s a beach…. unless girls have equal opportunities to boys

Ok, let’s start weaving the web…

“The world is changing beneath our feet and it is past time to embrace a twenty-first-century approach to advancing the rights and opportunities of women and girls at home and across the globe. I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace — all we need is a fighting chance.”

Hiliary Clinton