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Good takedown of the success sequence, “a meme in search of a policy”: theatlantic.com/family/archive…
FWIW, every woman I met in Baltimore reporting this story wanted a husband but it was too hard to find one who wasn't in jail and had a job theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
At one point, my main source told me she would like a white boyfriend, since white men are more likely to be college educated. But where to find a white boyfriend in Sandtown?
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People talking on the phone in the quiet car. The social order has broken down.
How long before I say something
The topic is wedding planning
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Hello internet, we've been talking a bit about wellness and why people engage in practices that aren't evidence-based. Here's a story that looks at one such practice: acupuncture for addiction. theatlantic.com/health/archive…
It's not born of ignorance. Instead, it arose because many communities of color could no longer trust doctors to deliver quality care to them. theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Also, acudetox, as it's known, is one of the most wild trips I'd ever heard of, going from Maoist China, to the Black Panthers in the Bronx, to two white hippies in Maryland theatlantic.com/health/archive…
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This is a pretty good example of how centrist/conservative Americans find medical charity to be heartwarming but leftist types see it as a sign of a systemic breakdown
I hear all the time from right-leaning doctors' groups that there's no need to expand Medicaid or w/e because there are charities that will fill in the gaps, and isn't that great. Meanwhile left-leaning think tanks find it scary to have to rely on charity for surgery.
Here's a good example of that phenomenon: theatlantic.com/health/archive…
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Philadelphia is arguably the epicenter of the urban overdose crisis. And while things became a little-bit better in 2018, we are very far from where we need to be.

Thread on a year that started with a huge announcement and ended with a tiny glimmer of hope.
Last year ended with a devastating overdose cluster that took the lives of 70 people in 30 days. @aubreyjwhelan and @MikeNewall reported on the year that claimed 1,217 lives: philly.com/philly/news/op…
In January it seemed like 2018 might be different. Philadelphia officials declared that the city will not stand in the way of private entities that want to open a safe-injection site. Philadelphia was celebrated as the first city in the US to have a site: philly.com/philly/health/…
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The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labour’

Arlie Hochschild, the sociologist who invented the term, says it’s specifically about managing your emotions.

Remembering the kids’ schedules & your mother-in-law’s birthday? That’s just regular cognitive labour.
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“There’s no doubt that the unpaid, expected, and unacknowledged work of keeping households and relationships running smoothly falls disproportionately on women. But that doesn’t make it emotional labor. Organizing to-do lists and planning family Christmases are just labor.”
Also, emotional labour is also not necessarily oppressive or “bad”

Hochschild’s focus is on whether the labour is alienating. But it can also be fun!

“If you’re the one that people are turning to for advice … Chances are you’re gratified at being able to help people.”
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I’m overwhelmed by the response to my piece in @TheAtlantic about our family’s adoption experience. I spent much of yesterday just trying to keep track of the various critiques and reactions. Here are a few follow-up thoughts. (Thread) theatlantic.com/family/archive…
First, it’s uncanny how many of the replies to my first tweet about the piece echo the attacks on transracial adoption that I outline in my essay. There are many good comments, but also concern about whether I’m “woke” enough to parent my daughter:
Second, I’m puzzled by how many people are claiming I “equated” racist alt-right threats with attacks from the left. I do no such thing. I specifically say the racist right “exceeded” the left and made me wish for the days of attacks from the left. It’s right there in the piece.
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In death, John McCain shows a virtuous alternative to Trump
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There’s a @DavidAFrench piece @TheAtlantic that cites my adoption work alongside some stomach-turning racist attacks, made on his family by the Alt Right since 2015, and particularly after French’s criticism of Donald Trump in the election 1/a bunch theatlantic.com/family/archive…
1. I don’t do Twitter fights as a general rule. 2. I’m disgusted (but sadly not surprised) by the racism directed at French’s daughter and family, which included photoshopping his daughter, born in Ethiopia, into gas chamber or slave plantation pictures. That’s vile and atrocious
However, French’s attempt to draw equivalence between that sort of hate attack and what he presents as corresponding attacks on his multiracial family from the left—with me as the prime example—leaves me wondering whether he read any of the work of mine he cites.
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Mass shootings have become an accepted part of American life. @IsabelFattal and @stetyjohn talked to nearly a dozen people about their experiences. Heartbreaking, essential.

“The fact that I’m a survivor of a school shooting is not something he knows.” theatlantic.com/family/archive…
“I did just want to move on and get back to normal. But you can’t. These are things that will impact you for the rest of your life and will affect you.” theatlantic.com/family/archive…
“There’s a piece of me that feels anger: Why have we not been able to reverse this trend? Why is it getting worse? Why can’t we do something about it? Then there’s fear. What if we don’t figure it out?” theatlantic.com/family/archive…
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