For many, this financial burden becomes unmanageable and eventually results in loss of connection with spouses, parents, children, and siblings from one another." inquest.org/your-call-co...

women depend, silently, on the continuation of wider divisions of labor that enlist racialized pink-collar women to clean, nurse, and nanny." inquest.org/leaning-in-t...

sexual dimorphism at large, even as they refused the traditional feminine division of household labor in their personal lives. I am often reminded of these ironies when I encounter Lean In–style capitalist feminist discourses today, whose prescriptions for white-collar

#tdih 1971, Attica Prison Uprising began.

Prisoners took control, made series of demands.

Faced brutal repression.

Teaching resources ⬇️with guide by @prisonculture.bsky.social and interview with Orisanmi Burton on the Long Attica Revolt.
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How does our organizing make visible the everyday ways that environmental racism and environmental injustice are fundamental to the prison state in all of its forms?" inquest.org/abolition-an...

a key complaint was that there was sewage being pumped right underneath their dorms and dining hall, making people ill. How can we bring to the forefront these environmental aspects not only when they are headline grabbing?

If your emotional defense budget isn’t big enough to hold the line and you get trampled by other people’s greed, that’s on you."

But the term takes on its own momentum, overrunning intimacy with alienation. In its most extreme forms, boundary-speak makes it feel like some of us have given up on each other: the only effective social strategy left is to lock yourself in, fortify your defenses.

They aren’t straightforwardly wrong to do this: negotiating other people’s needs, which are often unreasonable and unfulfillable and intolerable, is fraught, baffling, and overwhelming. It demands a good strong metaphor, and the image of boundaries is unusually tensile.

"Boundaries are a Band-Aid in a bad world: if you can’t expect people to care for you and treat you well and protect you from violence or scarcity, you can at least protect yourself from their needs.