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Moreover, we have lost most subsidized forms of childcare, and many women now work on a cottage-industry basis, at piecework rates often below the minimum wage, because it is the only possibility they have to earn some money and take care of their children at the same time.
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
By consenting to these terms, Katia upheld a deeply unequal system in which girls circulated between men on men’s terms, while generating surplus value for them in the form of money, social ties, and status. This system is what anthropologist Gayle Rubin referred to, in her now famous 1975 essay, as “the traffic in women.” Rubin had sought to addre
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For Colored Nerds - Thee Well-Read Black Girl, Glory Edim on Stitcher
stitcher.comSmashing the girlboss myths: how women are doing ambition on their own terms
Emma Beddingtontheguardian.comWhen They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele as well as the article “The Matter of Black Lives” by Jelani Cobb, published in the New Yorker.
Dolly Chugh • The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
