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How Parenting Labour Gets Divided in the First Month and Why It's Never Renegotiated

The month that writes the rulesNobody sits down in the first week and says: you take nights, I'll take mornings. You handle the paediatrician, I'll handle the formula. The division of parenting labour doesn't get decided. It gets discovered, after the fact, once the pattern has already set.The baby arrives…

Times Life · Sep 16

The Invisible Unpaid Labour Indian Daughters-in-Law Perform That Nobody Counts as Work

The work that has no nameYou remember the first week. The kitchen was unfamiliar, the pressure cooker a different weight, the dal proportions someone else's memory. You figured it out by the second week. By the third, nobody noticed you had figured it out, because the expectation had already moved…

Times Life · Jul 6

Vance and the white working-class myth

From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "Communion," Vance's narrative is about power, not solidarity

Salon · Jun 25

What the truck? The 'freedom convoy' protesters are heading back to Ottawa

July 1 marks the first in-person Canada Day celebrations in the nation’s capital since 2019. But the celebrations could be overshadowed by a potentially large number of returning so-called “freedom convoy” protesters and sympathizers like the “Rolling Thunder” bikers.

The Conversation · Jun 30, 2022