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Critics and activists have validated a greater range of (re)productive activities, to include all the mental, manual, and emotional work necessary to “maintain existing life and to reproduce the next generation.” 34 Maintaining life — that’s a big job.
Places Journal • Maintenance and Care

Sarah McNally considers herself a humble bookseller while also being the founder and owner of an ever-expanding empire, McNally Jackson, now likely the third-largest buyer of books in the city, after only Barnes & Noble and the Strand. She is a thumb on the scale of cultural life in the city. She hosts several book groups at the stores and privatel... See more
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“The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.”
Maria Popova • Bad Feminist: Roxane Gay on the Complexities and Blind Spots of the Equality Movement

Zohranomics is an effective form of antifascist economic policy. The crisis of economic security that comes with basic questions of dignity & identity is being used by the far right. An agenda laser-focussed on the needs of ordinary people is the way out.
@JohnCassidy @NewYorker https://t.co/jCCCKgvCnO

On the one hand this illustrates how a familiar urban principle, that of patronage (the more garbage there is to be collected, the more garbage collectors can be employed),