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

Join us on June 27 for "How Women Became America’s Safety Net: A Conversation With Jess Calarco and guests."

Register now: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_meb_vh-ZRu6lqzInRMMcXQ

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Having a college education shapes women’s work and family trajectories—including their marriage, parenting, and employment patterns—but the effects of education differ among Black, Latina, and white women, according to new research.

Here are 4 key takeaways

https://www.prb.org/articles/college-shapes-black-white-and-latina-womens-work-and-family-lives-differently/

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kris_inwood , to geography group
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Pierre Benz & coauthors identify family strategies to preserve elite power in 20th century Switzerland using social network, kinship & sequence analysis. Other families lost influence while some lost & then regained it.
New & open access in Social Science History!
https://doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2024.6

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Jamie, 44. The Seh-Nielsen Family, Victor,

‘With the world moving ever so fast, these apples of my eye remind me to slow down and see the beauty in all things. They are the light’

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Stephanie, 37. The Mathews Family, Saratoga Springs,

‘Endless possibilities and adventure! We sold our home and just about everything we owned three years ago. Little did we know what awaited us on the open road ... freedom unlike anything we had ever had while on a quest to find a new place and community to call home’

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Just finished Christina Rivera Garza’s “Lilliana’s Invincible Summer: a sister’s search for justice”

Beautiful reflection on , , , as well as , toxic , and .

Reminds me that perhaps it’s time to grieve some folks in my life too 💜💜

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https://bookwyrm.social/book/1628641/s/rebel-girl

I've just started reading Kathleen Hanna's autobiography, 'Rebel Girl'. I'm 5% in and it's enthralling, in a few different ways, as you can tell from the quotes.

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I want to tell you how I write songs and produce music. How singing makes me feel connected to a million miracles at once. How being onstage is the one place I feel the most me. But I can’t untangle all of that from the background that is male violence. I wish I could forget the guy who stalked me while I was making my solo record. How he sat on the roof of the building across from mine and looked into my windows with binoculars as I worked. How he told my neighbors he thought I was a prostitute who “needed to be stopped.” I wish I could slice him out of my story as a musician, but I can’t. I also don’t want this book to be a list of traumas, so I’m leaving a lot of that on the cutting room floor. It’s more important to remember that I’ve seen ugly basement rooms transform into warm campfires, dank rock-bro clubs become bright parties where girls and gay kids and misfits danced together in a sea of freedom and joy, art galleries that had only ever showcased white male mediocrity become sites of thrilling feminist collaborations. I also ate gelato on a street in Milan with my bandmates and cried because it tasted THAT FUCKING GOOD. But yeah, there were also rapes and run-ins with assholes who threw water on my shine. I keep trying to make my rapes funny, but I have to stop doing that because they aren’t. I want them to be stories because stories are made up of words, and words can’t hurt me.
I had hair down to my butt in the second grade, but my mom got sick of washing it, took out her sewing shears, and gave me the ugliest short haircut imaginable.
My sister was always in trouble, and not just because she was bullied at school and screamed back at men—but because she had a father who stared at her like she was a Playboy Bunny and not his own daughter. When they fought, which was often, it sounded like cats fighting, if the cats were a teenage girl and a full-grown man. All I wanted to do was escape that sound. I spent a lot of time on our front stoop with my hands over my ears, trying to make a facial expression that was the equivalent of writing “help” in a fogged-up window.

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Until high school, Kate Feiffer believed that her mother Judy's novel, "A Hot Property," was about real estate. Then a boyfriend plucked the book from the shelves, started reading passages aloud, and revealed it was a piece of 1970s erotica. From then until just a few years ago, Kate considered "A Hot Property" to be her literary Waterloo — the book she'd hoped to conquer but never been able to. But on her mother's death, she picked up the novel and — between bouts of screaming and cringing — found something more thoughtful and reflective than she was expecting. Here's what she wrote for LitHub.

https://flip.it/cbERa2

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