Authors, friends,<\/p>\n
There are times in our lives when we look at something we\u2019ve put together a say, \u201cwe can do better.\u201d This is one of those times. We put together the topic for the summer issue of our magazine and thought it would be exactly what our readers wanted. And now as we\u2019re closer to the issue, we started asking, s this really the most important thing we can say<\/i>? And we decided it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n
We\u2019d been in some conversations around the office about what it is to be\u2026 a lady. It\u2019s easy to joke around about crazy mood swings, and the parts of our bodies we don\u2019t like, but that\u2019s not doing justice to one of the pieces most intricately woven through our identity \u2013 our gender. There is a lot to say on the rights for women and fighting gender stereotypes and equality of women, but I think I\u2019ve missed some of the conversation about what it is to be a woman.<\/p>\n
This becomes an even greater question when there are daughters following our footsteps \u2013 how do we teach them the intricacies of being female? And sons, how do we relate with them through our own female-ness? And for ourselves, how do we own the privilege of femininity?<\/p>\n
We want to focus the Summer 2014 issue of Hello, Darling<\/i> to focus on the Privilege of Femininity. And we hope you\u2019ll join us by submitting work. Changing the entire issue this late in the game means we\u2019re on a deadline \u2013 a tight<\/i> deadline. Look at the topics below and consider what it might prompt you to add to the conversation. As a reference, you can visit our writer\u2019s guidelines at MOPS.org\/writers-guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n (By the way, have you seen the new MOPS magazine, Hello, Darling <\/i>yet? It\u2019s adorable. We have a secret link to our February issue<\/a> I\u2019m including here for you to check out.)<\/p>\n