Brenna Erford
@erfordb.bsky.social
Money, intersectionality, politics & policy. Director of finance & ops @ Conversationalist.org. If you can’t find me I’m probably out on my paddleboard.
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this is good advice
my publisher is also my editor and my friend and his company is very small and I felt weird at first like Playing Hardball™️ with him, until that same lawyer friend told me always negotiate a contract as though a stranger might take over the company tomorrow and that piece of paper is all you’ve got
November 23, 2023 at 12:24 AM
this is good advice
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"Other countries have social safety net. The U.S. has women."
That quote is the beating heart of my new book, HOLDING IT TOGETHER, which will be out June 4, 2024 with Portfolio/Penguin, and which I can't wait to share with all of you.
For the curious, a 🧵
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
That quote is the beating heart of my new book, HOLDING IT TOGETHER, which will be out June 4, 2024 with Portfolio/Penguin, and which I can't wait to share with all of you.
For the curious, a 🧵
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
Holding It Together by Jessica Calarco: 9780593538128 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 20, 2023 at 3:53 PM
"Other countries have social safety net. The U.S. has women."
That quote is the beating heart of my new book, HOLDING IT TOGETHER, which will be out June 4, 2024 with Portfolio/Penguin, and which I can't wait to share with all of you.
For the curious, a 🧵
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
That quote is the beating heart of my new book, HOLDING IT TOGETHER, which will be out June 4, 2024 with Portfolio/Penguin, and which I can't wait to share with all of you.
For the curious, a 🧵
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
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Make me a government contractor. I can lose a rocket for half of SpaceX’s budget.
November 18, 2023 at 5:36 PM
Make me a government contractor. I can lose a rocket for half of SpaceX’s budget.
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The election you should be focusing on takes place on Tuesday. You can probably vote for the school board, the library board, maybe sheriff, local officials and offices that shape your community. Do you have a plan to vote?
November 5, 2023 at 2:30 PM
The election you should be focusing on takes place on Tuesday. You can probably vote for the school board, the library board, maybe sheriff, local officials and offices that shape your community. Do you have a plan to vote?
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Tonight is the night to shame fast drivers in neighborhoods
October 31, 2023 at 10:30 PM
Tonight is the night to shame fast drivers in neighborhoods
drop your best scientific history-inspired shoegaze band names here, ok I’ll start: The Luminiferous Ether
October 28, 2023 at 2:44 AM
drop your best scientific history-inspired shoegaze band names here, ok I’ll start: The Luminiferous Ether
::laughs hysterically in accountant-ese::
Going to the AICPA website to check how many alternative balance sheets we're allowed to include in audited financials
October 13, 2023 at 12:48 AM
::laughs hysterically in accountant-ese::
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An Olympic gold-medal winner, who once beamed from cereal boxes and was called America’s sweetheart, is reduced to begging for money to help with impossibly ruinous medical bills as she dies in the hospital. I note this merely factually, as questioning whether it’s right or good would be Marxist.
October 12, 2023 at 4:16 PM
An Olympic gold-medal winner, who once beamed from cereal boxes and was called America’s sweetheart, is reduced to begging for money to help with impossibly ruinous medical bills as she dies in the hospital. I note this merely factually, as questioning whether it’s right or good would be Marxist.
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I wrote about the backlash to 1619 and how conservatives who attacked it as propaganda are now imposing propaganda on public schools in an attempt to prevent anyone from coming to the conclusion that anti black racism is a problem. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Conservative Censorship Campaign Reaches Its Natural Conclusion
Some states are adopting a cartoon version of the past into their curricula.
www.theatlantic.com
September 13, 2023 at 8:42 PM
I wrote about the backlash to 1619 and how conservatives who attacked it as propaganda are now imposing propaganda on public schools in an attempt to prevent anyone from coming to the conclusion that anti black racism is a problem. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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'In a culture where trans and disabled people are medical problems to be solved, thereby erasing them from society, working in solidarity with each other is extremely important, and is the best way forward in a hostile climate that uses medicalization as a tool of power and control.'
When Medicalization Becomes a Tool for Dehumanization
People who lead lives in “deviant” bodies are familiar with the state’s attempt to control them. Finding commonality is how we fight back.
conversationalist.org
August 23, 2023 at 5:18 PM
'In a culture where trans and disabled people are medical problems to be solved, thereby erasing them from society, working in solidarity with each other is extremely important, and is the best way forward in a hostile climate that uses medicalization as a tool of power and control.'