Hi all, we’re back! It’s our first episode of the year, and our most timely one to date. We recorded this yesterday, with both the protests and the heinous ICE repression in Minneapolis deeply on our hearts.
This goes without saying, but these are simultatneously frightening and inspiring times. We wish that none of our neighbors had to stand up to this level of repression, but we’re unspeakably grateful for those who are. We’re also noticing something (and we’re definitely not alone here): In Minneapolis, as was the case in Chicago, Charlotte and LA, the care and resistance networks standing up to ICE are disproportionally led by women (especially moms) and trans people. That’s not to say that there aren’t plenty of cis men showing up (particularly in direct confrontations with agents), but there’s a pattern at play, one that should be familiar to anybody who's ever attended both PTA and DSA meetings. What’s going on? And what do we make of it? We’re proud of how we wrestled with a whole bunch of the relevant layers, and we hope you enjoy it.
Also: we didn’t just talked about fascism and its discontents (us, we are the discontents). We also leaned into our roles as hip coastal sophisticate (Sarah) and salt of the earth frozen Midwesterner (Garrett). Can you guess which one of us talked a bunch about ice skating and which of us attended an all mom dance party where she didn’t do drugs but only because nobody offered? Oh, you can guess? Well, you’re correct. Also: Rose Byrne gets a bearded lizard. And childless young people roast the hell out of us old childed weirdos.
Like we said, we’re back, baby. Love you all.
Links:
Most importantly: our favorite list of ways to get involved and support activists in Minneapolis right now.
Garrett’s organizing messages of support for Minneapolis organizers (only takes a few minutes! add yours!).
Take a workshop with Sarah on choosing the right school for neurodivergent kids.
Speedskating rules! And the sixty year old guy who only started speed skating at 50 and competed at the Olympic trials also rules.
Mom’s only dance party! (Sarah’s verdict: it’s complicated).
Jesse Watters on the (ugh!) “crazy looking” “single” women protesting in Minneapolis (Fox News: again, ugh)
Diabolical Lies had an episode about Scott Galloway that made us give up on thinking we need to do a Galloway episode (scroll down for the comment about Minneapolis that we read aloud).
Collectivism and Individualism in Status Hierarchies, an article by Vincenzo Iacoviello and Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi, two Italian men whose names we pronounced really well (International Review of Social Psychology).
Gendered Activism: A Cross-national View on Gender Differences in Protest Activity by Kyle Dodson (Social Currents)
The normative male alexithymia hypothesis by R.F. Levant (chapter in Assessing and treating emotionally inexpressive men).
“Man enough to care” by Shannon Watts ( Playing with Fire ).
Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale love each other and their bearded dragon from New Jersey.
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