(also the album recording of the song has an adorable child voice: open.spotify.com/track/4OXRqv...)

Very cool, thanks!!

Wow this looks great, can't wait to read it!

Awesome, thank you!

... Students will choose among a variety of projects that allow them to practice engaging with non-archaeologist publics about archaeological topics in a variety of media or formats. No archaeological experience required.

... public archaeology programming, and community-driven archaeology projects. We will evaluate the effectiveness of these forms of public engagement for teaching non-archaeologists about the human past and its inhabitants. ...

Course description:

In this course, we will examine the ways a variety of publics learn about and engage with archaeological topics, including fictional media, science journalism, pseudoarchaeology media, social media, publicly-accessible sites and museums, ...

All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

I don't know this HR lady, but there's some chance she could be an ally in those fights, if we don't alienate her by taking out our frustrations about our crumbling society on her. C'mon people.

Or think even bigger and organize for a society where there's free good-quality universal public education starting when people go back to work after a year of paid parental leave and unlimited paid sick time, so we don't NEED our employers to contract with a corporation to give us "backup care"

I also have no reason to believe that being unkind to her is going to have any positive effect! If you're pissed about your employer cutting your benefits, UNIONIZE.

But I have no reason to think that this was Denise in HR's idea, or that she had any power to oppose it. She might be the reason we still get half of the benefit we got last year! Who knows!

Now, I get it. Parents are absolutely not supported in our society. We have extremely minimal safety net, and a benefit from work that provided a shred of that net just got cut in half. It's enraging!

She wrote back with the answer to my question and also said "This is the kindest email I've received on this topic – thank you so much for understanding!"

The postdoc benefits person emailed out to say that we only get 5 days of Bright Horizons backup childcare instead of 10 this year due to, you know, *gestures at crumbling society*. I emailed back with "That's a shame, but thank you for letting me know" and a clarifying question.

Yes! disabledarchnetwork.weebly.com If you DM me your email address, I'll make sure you're added to the listserv right away.

So, everyone, if you see a stranger with a 3-year-old hurrying down the sidewalk at 8:37 on a Monday morning, consider keeping your goddamn parenting opinions to yourself.