What is Comrade Mommy?
I decided to start something that allowed us to explore our political imaginations beyond hypercapitalist, sexist, racist, and consumer-driven parent and child focused media. Leftist families exist. This is a space for us.
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🚨 BREAKING: San Francisco art gallery owner arrested
@BrookeJenkinsSF issued warrant. Collier Gwin will be charged with misdemeanor battery for the alleged intentional and unlawful spraying of water on and around a woman experiencing homelessness.
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It’s not a coincidence that Trad is being pushed at a time when men perceive women & their labor to be less available to them; either through colleagues who won’t tolerate sexual harassment or romantic partners who won’t tolerate unfulfilling partnerships https://t.co/pAZbu2vg3t
BREAKING: The Biden admin will now reject all Haitian, Cuban and Nicaraguan asylum seekers who cross illegally, and cap entry from those places and Venezuela at a total 30,000/month.
Biden has deported ~40,000 people to Haiti, amid humanitarian crisis, cholera and gang violence.
New Episode!
This one is a @comrademommy installment in which I discuss the "sad beige" trend and other aesthetic choices in childrearing that carry thinly-veiled messages of classism, moralism, and misogyny.
https://t.co/j9MYcEF5mJ
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"After losing three months of income, taking out a loan on our house, paying enormous medical bills and paying for unexpected child care expenses, the financial stress compounded the 'mom-guilt.'" https://t.co/fiSSKqAF0S
In this @ComradeMommy episode, #Podmas installment #2 of the @LeftPOC Podcast, I discuss paperwork, its added burden in the already overwhelming lives of mothers, and excessive bureaucracy as an outgrowth of capitalism.
https://t.co/sVhiKQ3uYE
New (& no longer w/a file prblm!) Podmas Episode is out, & it's another @ComradeMommy installment.
https://t.co/KKhcyYB6bs
I talk abt the dark underbelly of mom/family based social media (psst: it's all abt capitalism, even the weird racist stuff)
#LeftPOC#ComradeMommy#Podmas
"Working moms 'have definitely taken a big step backwards in terms of being able to maintain a career in the labor market, even being able to maintain a simple in-person job.'"
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So I actually want to jump in on this as someone who has spent time thinking about parenting and scholarship around parenting. A lot of what we conventionally think about as “good parenting” actually exists to reinforce racist tropes about WHO we imagine are good parents.
In this @ComradeMommy episode, Podmas installment #2 of the @LeftPOC Podcast, I discuss paperwork, its added burden in the already overwhelming lives of mothers, and excessive bureaucracy as an outgrowth of capitalism.
https://t.co/v8w3ZdIqTy
"It's really, really important that in policy, that we're trying to lift up every single American child," Rep. Porter says on her bill for single-parent families to benefit from the expanded child tax credit. https://t.co/9a81qR1DS3