New Word

Jill Lepore's New Yorker piece on breastfeeding taught me a word I didn't know but probably should have: "lactivist." (Also, can I just say how jealous I am of Jill Lepore? The woman holds an endowed chair at Harvard, directs the History and Literature Program there, writes for the New Yorker, (co-)wrote a novel that's just been published, plus she has a family... and she really can't be much more than 40 years old. Sheesh.)