https://www.kathryntoure.net Education, Research, Partnerships Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:34:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2022/09/04/from-kenya-to-the-usa-visiting-family-and-friends-and-learning-hisherourstory/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2022/09/04/from-kenya-to-the-usa-visiting-family-and-friends-and-learning-hisherourstory/#comments Sun, 04 Sep 2022 21:11:13 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=2072 In this letter from Nairobi, Kenya, I share pictures and stories from a month of travels to six states in the USA, beginning in Ocean County, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and continuing to magical Brooklyn, New York. In Virginia, friends and I visit Emancipation Oak at Hampton University and “Hearth Memorial to the Enslaved” [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2022/09/04/from-kenya-to-the-usa-visiting-family-and-friends-and-learning-hisherourstory/feed/ 27 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/parenting-across-cultures-continents-and-generations/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/parenting-across-cultures-continents-and-generations/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:56:42 +0000 admin https://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1920 When I was asked to write on feminist parenting, I checked in with my adult children using social media and asked if I’m a feminist parent. With their resounding assurances – which I share later – I felt comfortable writing this essay. I begin by recounting how our children were born with feminist touches and [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2021/01/15/parenting-across-cultures-continents-and-generations/feed/ 0 https://www.kathryntoure.net/2013/05/15/the-new-economy-is-at-odds-with-family-values/ https://www.kathryntoure.net/2013/05/15/the-new-economy-is-at-odds-with-family-values/#comments Wed, 15 May 2013 18:51:26 +0000 admin http://www.kathryntoure.net/?p=1005 My mother went into paid work soon after my father’s clothing store was flooded out in a hurricane, almost wiping him out. She had no choice. We needed the money. This was some two decades before a tidal wave of wives and mothers went into paid work. For the relatively few women with four-year college [...]]]> https://www.kathryntoure.net/2013/05/15/the-new-economy-is-at-odds-with-family-values/feed/ 0