Interdisciplinary Thesis Project by Experimental Animator and IM student Erica Larsen-Dockray
"My First Pregnancy" is the ride you can't get off of once you've begun. The project will include an installation containing magic mirrors where one sees the anatomical changes of pregnancy on their own body, video games challenging the player to know what a pregnant woman can eat before her nausea gets the best of her, baby developmental stages as fruits and vegetables in jars of goo, plush pregn
09/04/2022
Women’s Media Center 2022 Report Gender & Non-Acting Primetime Emmy Nominations - Full Report - Women’s Media Center The Primetime Emmy Awards have opened more doors for people to get nominated, but it doesn’t mean that more women are being invited inside. The number of women nominated for non-acting Primetime Emmys in 2021 decreased by three percentage points compared to 2020, according to the most recent Women...
03/10/2017
5 things I didn't want to hear when I was grieving and 1 thing that helped. "Like most people, I wouldn’t know how to respond or what to say if a friend’s child passed away."
07/14/2016
It is about time
The Brutal Truth About Being a Pregnant Worker in 2016: It’s Pretty Awful A former White House official tells her story -- and calls for pre-ternity benefits.
06/21/2016
10/17/2015
Reminiscent of the importance of consciousness raising in the women's history.
Why I Finally Stopped Sugarcoating My Birth Story Sharing birth stories is a new-mom rite of passage, but no pregnant woman wants to hear another woman's labor and delivery horror story.
07/28/2015
This may be something...
Review: ‘Unexpected,’ a Tale of 2 Pregnancies That Unite and Divide Kris Swanberg’s film depicts a Chicago schoolteacher who discovers that she is pregnant just as one of her top students does, and peppers her protégée with advice.
01/23/2013
My First Pregnancy Installation Documentation Documentation of the first installation of "My First Pregnancy" my thesis for my Masters of Fine Art in Experimental Animation and Integrated Media at the California…
01/23/2013
Why experts say it's harmful to tell your little girl she's pretty According to author Lisa Bloom, our obsession with talking to our little girls about their appearance is teaching them a pernicious message.
08/11/2012
This, in a way, represents how modern mothers perceive themselves in our (American) culture. Both in the issues it surfaces and also the fact that this article, written by a popular parenting mediator, informs that culture of what is/isn't on Mommy's minds. It's sad to think women would ever feel guilty about most of these concepts or that they would be put in this position in the first place.
"Wow.... Parenting.com just pointed out something I never felt guilty about before... should I feel guilty about how I wasn't and now maybe I should?"
20 Things Moms Should Never Feel Guilty About From wanting to get back to work to never starting the baby book (let alone finishing it), here's how to let go of mom guilt
08/03/2012
An interesting read. Especially the approach of categorizing unintended pregnancies based off of how far away they were from being intended instead of just age.
http://www.physiciansbriefing.com/Article.asp?AID=666947
Health News Articles | News for Physicians & Medical Professionals TUESDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- The proportion of unintended births in the United States has remained unchanged from 1982, and was about 37 percent in 2006 to 2010, according to a report issued July 24 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistic...
04/14/2012
04/06/2012
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-04/D9TURRQO0.htm
I find this pretty interesting.
Prenatal care debate divides Nebraska Republicans - BusinessWeek The issues of illegal immigration and abortion have split Nebraska's Republican-dominated politics, with some conservatives supporting a plan to offer state aid to pregnant women in the country illegally and others arguing that doing so would violate a bedrock GOP belief.