Originally, I began flyingbluepig as an online recipe catalogue of dishes I learned to cook and love to make. I envisioned this as a way to document and share the learning process of figuring out how to cook healthy, budget friendly meals for myself and my then boyfriend Carl as we began living with each other. However, life doesn’t always work out the way we planned.
When I started some posting some recipes, I wasn’t satisfied with what I was doing. My friends often commented to me that they enjoyed hearing more about my adventures and inquiries that I dove into because they were told from an interesting perspective: an academic woman of color navigating with the social, cultural and economic politics of marriage, career, and now child rearing in the Bay Area. I found myself more inspired to talk about my adventures of trying to work part-time, and deal with the cultural and social politics of raising a bi-racial child in an expensive, “liberal” area of the country while balancing work and life. Along the way, I met other women who were in a similar boat as me. I believe our stories should be told and explored, because each gives a voice to a population that is often ignored or forced to fit boxed categories. We don’t fit these neat boxes because we are not clean and neat. We blur the lines and fit more than one box which often draws the ire of many people, because human nature does not like ambiguity or uncertainty.
Flyingbluepig will explore different aspects part-time working moms, especially those of color face and how living in the Bay Area influences their lives in ways not always considered. Especially now that we are living during a pandemic. I hope to also talk to men and members in the LBGTQ community to tell their stories as well.
Pigs are curious by nature and stubborn until they get to the root of what drew their curiosity. I love the color blue. As I write this post and do my research, I imagine a little, stubborn blue pig helping me delve into this topic and fly off into world assisting me in getting these stories out there. I will post monthly on what I learn and discover.
I hope you will find these stories interesting and perhaps learn something that will help inform you into voting for better policies or at least promote better understanding about our fellow human beings.
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