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My short film “Positive!” is playing @byronbayfilmfestival. Maybe you’re going to the festival - or know someone who is? Please share this trailer! It’s on at the Palace Cinema on Tuesday October 25th at 6.30pm - it’s playing before “See Mandy Run” starring comedian @mandy.nolan. It’s a short comedy about when my family got covid and because of the government guidelines at the time (10 days of isolation if you had covid or 10 days of quarantine if exposed), and because we got it literally one after the other, WE HAD TO ISOLATE FOR 32 DAYS. My kids were 2 and 5 at the time and we’d already been in strict lockdown for most of the 18 months prior to getting covid. It’s about pandemic parenting….or maybe it’s just about parenting. I made this with the help of my two children, @williamshear and my brother Andrew Richardson (who hates social media). Thank you for your invaluable feedback on my edit @seeseven @getaroundtoit @chadcariano @kevinjseamon @caitmcnice328 @dougjaeger @kristinsloan @janguarman @vaglianos @pierogilyn. And thank you to the many wonderful parents and teachers at @acornwaldorfschool, and @matthewkburr and Holden, many of whom were in the film, as well as being a great source of love and support throughout the pandemic (and in life). #bbff2022 #pandemicparenting #shortfilms #comedywoman #filmfestivals

Someone at @hellotushy (don’t get confused with @tushy) should be paying me #potty #pottymouth #butt #hygiene #tushy

The Infinite Wishes of The Better Parent Here’s one (privileged) American mother’s experience as a "pandemic parent". It’s a group of people I feel the need to write about because I’m one of them. But I ask myself, “should I talk about this privileged position?”. Because there are many parents who lived through much worse situations. "It's not a competition, per se”…right? Because if it were a competition, there were single mothers and fathers who would “win”; families plunged into extreme poverty who had it much worse during covid, parents who cared for their children as well as their elderly parents, parents surviving war and/or being a refugee in the time of Covid, parents in nasty divorces, parents who lived with floods, earthquakes and fires during Covid, parents who cared for children with disabilities, parents of a child with a severe illness, parents who lived with an alcoholic/drug-addicted and/or violent partner, parents who lost loved ones to Covid, or to another illness or accident during the pandemic. The list, of course, could go on, where other parents “win" in terms of the depth of their hardship and misery during the pandemic, way harder shit to live through than the trials and tribulations of this lady here in the video shaking a snow globe. And yet… I feel a strong urge to write about this woman, who isn’t necessarily me, but in a familiar-enough situation with a lot of feelings I can relate to (PS please remember this is fiction, where I draw on my life, other people’s lives, dreams, fantasy etc.). Anyway beyond all of the above, it’s hard to be a parent, yes indeed. And a parent during Covid, yes Siree. And even beyond the pandemic, and beyond parenting, it’s hard to be a human with memories and heartaches and our own complicated set of parents, trying to navigate the present without the baggage of the past. PS "The pandemic “shecession” is fading as more women return to jobs across the country, aided by new workplace flexibility that could lock in future increases in female employment." More from The PEW Charitable Trusts here: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2022/05/03/as-women-return-to-jobs-remote-work-could-lock-in-gains

One nose ring, two different women this week. I’m 42 tomorrow and I dedicate these two vids to the “ladies in da house”; to the moms and the child-free, to our periods, fibroids and c-sections, pregnancies, miscarriages and abortions, menopausal ups and downs, pert or sagging tits, always complicated va-j-js and all our massive Mother Earth emotions. I leave you with the words of this giant of a woman; “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” - Virginia Woolf #femalecomedian #childfreebychoice #kapalabhati #virginiawoolf #childfree

This video was removed/censored by YouTube. “Gaia” is the personification of the earth in Greek mythology, the ancestral mother of all life. Thank you @williamshear for helping me with the edit and @mahnazdamania for helping me with a Delhi accent :) 2 quotes to shout from the rooftops: “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” - Martin Luther King Jr. “There is no one on earth like savages, peasants, and provincials for examining their affairs from every angle; what’s more, when they move from thought to action, you can see they have worked things out completely.” - Honoré de Balzac (from “Le Cabinet des Antiques”) Asian Drums by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3386-asian-drums License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license #earthjustice #systemicoppression #corporategreed #humanrights #taxtherich