Natasha Sky, multiracial mom to four kids ... two by adoption ... writer, artist and activist, and creator of the very popular transracial parenting blog
Multiracial Sky, this week announced the launch of a new website providing resources for multiracial families.
MultiracialSky.com is a cheerful, pleasant site full of information, with pages on creating a multiracial home environment, talking about race, multiracial identity, hair and skin care, transracial adoption and finding and creating a multiracial community.
Attractive and easy to navigate, there is even a comprehensive glossary that is, " ... intended as an educational tool for parents, children, teachers, students, and researchers. It is an offering of information, of history, and of possibilities. The definitions are specific to the current usage of the terms in the United States."
Like the blog, the site is friendly and welcoming. Tips are clearly and simply presented for ease of access and quick reference, and the advice is practical.
For example, the
section on skin care offers a list of skin care products that starts off with olive oil: "One of the best oils for skin care. Olive oil can be purchased at the grocery store." (It's the one I use, and the only thing that's made a difference on my son's knees and ankles.)
No fancy, schmancy marketing gimmicks here, just good, solid information gleaned from years of experience.
And from the sublimely sensible and helpful, to the confusingly offensive and downright silly,
here's a site that sells, of all things ... get this -- anti-adoption-wear and other items.
Visit the site and find such can't-do-without items as "Save the Family Trees, Abolish Adoption" mouse pads.
The "Adoption aborts the mother woman's tank top" had me contemplating the complications of an unplanned tank top for a while, but I decided the whole site is just too wacky to pin down for a
raison d'etre.
There's an ID for the person that runs this site ... I think ... but it sounds a bit like a hoax to me. Call me a cynic, but after the
"Mother marries son" fiction I wrote about yesterday, and the
blatant fraud posted as comments on a blog last weekend, I'm learning to be leery of people who trash adoption.
My name is Jessica DelBalzo, and I am a 25 year old mother-writer-activist from Flemington, New Jersey. I am the founder of Adoption: Legalized Lies, a non-profit organization devoted to the abolition of adoption and the preservation of natural families.
Jessica DelBalzo? from Flemington? Anti-adoption mouse pads? Really?
Ah! Pull the other one ...