Brenna Erford

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this is good advice

Holding It Together by Jessica Calarco: 9780593538128 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding...

"Other countries have social safety net. The U.S. has women."

That quote is the beating heart of my new book, HOLDING IT TOGETHER, which will be out June 4, 2024 with Portfolio/Penguin, and which I can't wait to share with all of you.

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www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

Make me a government contractor. I can lose a rocket for half of SpaceX’s budget.

The election you should be focusing on takes place on Tuesday. You can probably vote for the school board, the library board, maybe sheriff, local officials and offices that shape your community. Do you have a plan to vote?

Tonight is the night to shame fast drivers in neighborhoods

ah, there it is - the slightly crispy, sulfurous smell of economic ideologues who can’t comprehend why the ol’ invisible hand may not actually favor capital in every possible scenario

drop your best scientific history-inspired shoegaze band names here, ok I’ll start: The Luminiferous Ether

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::laughs hysterically in accountant-ese::

An Olympic gold-medal winner, who once beamed from cereal boxes and was called America’s sweetheart, is reduced to begging for money to help with impossibly ruinous medical bills as she dies in the hospital. I note this merely factually, as questioning whether it’s right or good would be Marxist.

The Conservative Censorship Campaign Reaches Its Natural Conclusion Some states are adopting a cartoon version of the past into their curricula.

I wrote about the backlash to 1619 and how conservatives who attacked it as propaganda are now imposing propaganda on public schools in an attempt to prevent anyone from coming to the conclusion that anti black racism is a problem. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I want to know what this feels like 😆😭

When Medicalization Becomes a Tool for Dehumanization People who lead lives in “deviant” bodies are familiar with the state’s attempt to control them. Finding commonality is how we fight back.

'In a culture where trans and disabled people are medical problems to be solved, thereby erasing them from society, working in solidarity with each other is extremely important, and is the best way forward in a hostile climate that uses medicalization as a tool of power and control.'