by Jake Aryeh Marcus Find Sustainable Mothering on Facebook and Jake on Twitter. West Virginia is one of only three U.S. states (along with Nebraska and Idaho) that has no law whatsoever protecting breastfeeding. So I was glad to read that this month not one but two bills were introduced in the West Virginia Senate [...]
Recent blog posts written by Mama Jake
Growing Up With Domestic Violence: Patrick Stewart and Me
by Jake Aryeh Marcus Find Sustainable Mothering on Facebook and Jake on Twitter. I got a fundraising e-mail from Amnesty International the other day. It was from a celebrity, as so many non-profit fundraising e-mails are. But this one really made me stop and look. It was from actor Patrick Stewart and it was about [...]
Stacey Armato Responds To The TSA Post On Her Breast Milk Detention
by Jake Aryeh Marcus Find Sustainable Mothering on Facebook and Jake on Twitter. Stacey Armato, the mom who was detained by the TSA when she requested that her pumped breast milk be given an “alternate” screening, agreed to an interview with me to answer some questions that might be lingering since the TSA posted its [...]
Breast Milk Mom Prepares to Sue the TSA Over Detention
by Jake Aryeh Marcus Find Sustainable Mothering on Facebook and Jake on Twitter. Stacey Armato, the mother who was detained by TSA agents in Phoenix last February when she asked for “alternate” screening for her pumped breast milk, has filed a TSA Tort Claim Package, the last step before she can file a lawsuit against [...]
Just When You Thought it Was Safe to Travel with Breast Milk: The TSA Targets Mothers
by Jake Aryeh Marcus Find Sustainable Mothering on Facebook and Jake on Twitter. When attorney Stacey Armato arrived at the TSA inspection at her usual gate at Phoenix International Airport for her weekly return flight home to Los Angeles on February 1st, she felt a bit of trepidation. The week before she had been held [...]
Atheist Parenting
by Jake Aryeh Marcus Find Sustainable Mothering on Facebook and Jake on Twitter. There is an interesting discussion over at PhD in Parenting in a post called Approaching Heaven, Mummies and Infinity about raising kids without religion. As happens to me a fair bit, I began to leave a comment that became so long I [...]












