Entries from November 2020
Lately, we’ve been inundated with stories of men’s entitlement gone awry: the Me Too movement, of course, but also Rebecca Solnit’s being mansplained by someone so arrogant he barely paused when her friend got through to him that he was lecturing Ms. Solnit on her own work. Read more... (307 words, 1 image, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)
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Tags: Books · Social Studies
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
author Barbara Ehrenreich is trying to land a white-collar position in a corporation. She wants to find out what job hunting is like in the trenches of the middle-class unemployed and expects to write her book with a happy “I got the job” ending. That’s not what happens. Read more... (256 words, 4 images, estimated 1:01 mins reading time)
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Tags: Books · Non Fiction
My sister thinks the New York Times favors Black people when choosing photos for the front page of their Arts section. In Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
, Isabel Wilkerson provides an answer for that seeming favoritism. She explains that Black people are over represented today in entertainment because under the Jim Crow laws, entertaining was one of the few jobs they were allowed. Black people had generations of practice: When they were actual slaves, they were required by their masters to sing and dance and appear to be happy. Read more... (353 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)
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Tags: Books · Non Fiction · Politics
Claire's Original Art Greeting Cards
There is nothing that says I care like a real snail-mail greeting card!
Click on a picture above for a plain-paper printable greeting card pdf.
Print on regular 8.5 by 11 printer paper. Fold twice so that the art is on the front and the title and copyright are on the back.
Write your greeting on the inside.
Mail in an A2 Invitation Envelope.
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author Barbara Ehrenreich is trying to land a white-collar position in a corporation. She wants to find out what job hunting is like in the trenches of the middle-class unemployed and expects to write her book with a happy “I got the job” ending. That’s not what happens. 
, Isabel Wilkerson provides an answer for that seeming favoritism. She explains that Black people are over represented today in entertainment because under the Jim Crow laws, entertaining was one of the few jobs they were allowed. Black people had generations of practice: When they were actual slaves, they were required by their masters to sing and dance and appear to be happy. 
