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Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?
The idea of hiring someone to do the work of staying up with the baby we created triggered all my deeply ingrained class issues; a little voice inside of me kept screaming, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND??
Jessi Klein • I'll Show Myself Out
The economy could stand to bend to the will of decency and care. What if we built a system that lets us actually care for the people who care for us?
Angela Garbes • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
Our culture is really doing a ten out of ten job in caring in the worst possible ways. There is no infrastructure to support parents of caregivers, so care makes you poor and exhausts you. (Solution: Pay caregivers! Universal and affordable childcare and eldercare!) Parenting has become more instrumental than it used to be: kids are a project, anot... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • "I Went Into Motherhood Determined Not to Lose Myself in It."
Good Material: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE
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It’s an immense privilege to consider work as anything beyond basic survival. A life dedicated to creating art of any kind is, for most of us, precarious and unsustainable. A modern-day marriage of two artists is as financially sturdy as sand. I knew intellectually that I wanted to be a mother more than I needed to be a writer. I just hadn’t calcul
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