@KA_Brooks

Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear @NPR favorite; The Houseguest (@counterpointllc); work in @NYTimes @nymag @thecut @chicagomag

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It’s been a while since I’ve written a personal essay. Feels good to come back to it. Also, I love you, Mom, even if i get my low, travel frustration tolerance from you.
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@TheAtlantic13 Feb 2024
"Lounging among my own dashed hopes, I began to understand that no family vacation was going to change who I was," @KA_Brooks writes. theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…

On Failing the Family Vacation

How I got dumped, went on a cruise, and embraced radical self-acceptance

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Chicago was chosen over dozens of cities to join @CZBiohub and receive a $250M investment to study how to eradicate disease. They recognized that there's no better place to build a top-tier workforce and develop cutting-edge technologies than Illinois. chicagomag.com/chicago-magaz…

The Ultimate Bioresearch Lab

Shana Kelley’s team at the new CZ Biohub will study inflammation in a way never done before.

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"Book publishers in the twenty-first century have created a market for white maternal memoirs in which relatively privileged women faux-transgressively confess mixed feelings about motherhood, apolitically." thebaffler.com/latest/the-go…

The Good Enough Momfluencer | Sophie Lewis

The fantasy sold to us by momfluencers is so potent than even a recent critical book on the industry succumbs to its dubious charms.

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A shortened version of an essay I wrote about the "essential labor" framing of care labor is coming out in the LRB tomorrow. In anticipation of that, I want to air a few points I feel are crucial when talking about the history of struggles to denaturalize private motherhood.
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Highly recommend this essay by ⁦@bethanyaball⁩ . Never Made a Living Wage When I Worked in Publishing - Electric Literature electricliterature.com/i-nev…
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Can’t wait!
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If you want to know more about Johnnie Tillmon, I wrote about her in The Stolen Year! smile.amazon.com/Stolen-Year…
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1 of 3 INCREDIBLY important piece in today's NYTimes on how Child Protective Services continually mistakes POVERTY for NEGLECT. Even caseworkers say the system loops in (and screws up) way too many decent families: nytimes.com/2022/11/22/nyreg… (Continue thread) 🧵

Is N.Y.’s Child Welfare System Racist? Some of Its Own Workers Say Yes. (Published 2022)

New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services must protect children without overpolicing families. A report the agency commissioned says it often fails.

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My latest for @TheCut. Thanks to all the volunteers @ElevatedAxs who shared their stories.
New York Magazine
@NYMag10 Nov 2022
.@ElevatedAxs flies women by private plane to get them to abortion clinics, circumventing restrictive legislation and all-out bans from high in the air. @KA_Brooks reports nym.ag/3AqXYkL
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Just got a copy of this gem and can’t wait to dig in. Amanda’s reading @SeminaryCoop tonight, chicago folks. Check it out.
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"Sophie Lewis is our most eloquent, furious and funny critic of how the family is a terrible way to satisfy all of our desires for love, care, nourishment." --- coming from the incredibly brilliant @ErinMaglaque! I am dead. RIP.
Gavin Jacobson@GavJacobson23 Sep 2022
“If we begin by abolishing our kitchens, what else might we get a taste for destroying, and for creating?” Wonderful essay by @ErinMaglaque on @reproutopia’s ‘Abolish the Family’ newstatesman.com/internation…

Red love, for all

Family is a terrible way to satisfy our desire for love and care, according to the writer and academic Sophie Lewis. The solution? Abolish it.

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Something to look forward to!
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“So we have forced treatment in California, and a lot of it. It’s in our jails and prisons, and we disingenuously ignore it every day. Worse, we are using those jails to warehouse severely mentally ill people in a Kafkaesque state of uncertainty.”
catherine liu@bureaucatliu12 Jul 2022
Chabria: ‘No treatment until tragedy’ is our mental health system. CARE Court could change that but ⁦@ACLU⁩ is on the wrong side of things again. latimes.com/california/story…

Column: 'No treatment until tragedy' is our mental health system. CARE Court could change that

Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed civil courts to help people with severe mental illness. Critics call it 'forced treatment' — but that misses the point.

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They made us some fancy graphics lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n14/…
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In 1975, women of Iceland went on strike for equal rights. 90% of women walked off their jobs & homes, shutting down the entire country. The men could barely cope. Five years later, Iceland elected first female President. Now Iceland has the highest gender equality in the world.
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Critics say the targeting of single-family rental homes by private equity and other corporate landlords has undermined homeownership and driven up rents. The firms’ all-cash offers typically win over bids with mortgages. A Congressional subcommittee has new findings: 1/
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The popular rage against Dems and liberals right now is giving me some hope, as is, in a way, the utter disconnect between the liberal media of record and mass thought. I think people are beginning to see that liberals have no intention of even trying to win the coming civil war?
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Why is it easier for Dems to agree on banning Juuls but they can’t figure out how to ban for profit healthcare?
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Kim Brooks retweeted
.@laurenthehough25 Jun 2022
You know why the French get free healthcare and a year of parental leave and the entire month of august off to avoid you? It’s because they burn the motherfucking country to the ground if their leaders act like ours. But yeah playing nice has worked out super good for us.
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