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Anne Helen Petersen

@annehelen

Aug 31, 2022

I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to talk about debt cancellation in a way that might get through to the "I worked my way through college/I made better choices" crowd.

Wealth is the missing piece:

annehelen.substack.com/p/wealth-is-th…

We’re accustomed to talking about stories about need/absence of student loans as stories of privilege. But a better way of thinking of them, particularly in the context of student loan forgiveness, is as stories of *wealth.*

Wealth is the floatation device that spreads vertically & horizontally through your family, buoying all those close enough to gain access

The size of that device—& how many people it can keep afloat—depends on how many are bolstering it & how many people need its support

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Anne Helen Petersen

@annehelen

Aug 24, 2022

10k-20k in debt cancellation isn't enough. But it is the beginning — and sharing stories of how it is dramatically changing people's lives helps garner the support to push the movement further.

Here are just some of those stories:

annehelen.substack.com/p/the-beginnin…

"For my family, an enormous financial and trauma burden is lifted today. I can't stop crying."

"No loan payment means more fresh fruit and veg in our fridge, more books for our boys and now I can afford to get new clothes too. I'm in total disbelief!"

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Anne Helen Petersen

@annehelen

Aug 10, 2022

@Bloomberg

For @Bloomberg, I spent a lot of time talking to women about the realities of their WFH/flex arrangements — which most people are pretty happy with! — but that society is still set up in a way that forces them to become one-woman safety nets:

bloomberg.com/news/features/…

When women get flex, they get space. But that space is is quickly filled with responsibilities that were once more equally distributed: between partners in a relationship, but also between citizens and the society of which they are a part

This is *particularly* true in cis-het relationships where the woman has flex/WFH and the man does not/doesn't take as much of it, because of gender expectations.

Who does the dinner prep? Shuttling kid from school to practice? The person with the flex

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Anne Helen Petersen

@annehelen

Aug 9, 2022

https://twitter.com/doree/status/1557102368272945152

Watching the reaction to this cartoon was so wild — people out there disbelieving the stubborn 65/35 unpaid labor split in cis-het marriages, yes even ostensibly "progressive" ones

https://twitter.com/doree/status/1557102368272945152

Just some very simple stats from the OECD re: division of labor of additional unpaid labor during the pandemic:

- 61.5% of mothers of children under age 12 say they took on the majority or entirety of the extra care work, vs. 22.4% of fathers

oecd.org/coronavirus/po…

@clairecm

Or the hall-of-famer from @clairecm: "Nearly Half of Men Say They Do Most of the Home Schooling. 3 Percent of Women Agree"

nytimes.com/2020/05/06/ups…

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Anne Helen Petersen

@annehelen

May 25, 2022

I process by writing. And right now, it feels like the sorrow is unending. There is nothing we can do, with our country as is, from stopping it from happening tomorrow.

This is what happens when you live under minority rule:

annehelen.substack.com/p/this-is-what…

To suggest someone channel their rage into voting feels like a laughable insult. I don’t mean we shouldn’t vote — of course we should. But voting will not, at least for the foreseeable future, effect substantive national change.

The United States has always, in some capacity, been governed through some form of minority rule. But the last 22 years (and the last six in particular) have underlined just how difficult it is for the will of the majority to translate into policy or governmental action.

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Anne Helen Petersen

@annehelen

May 22, 2022

The last two months I've watched something curious happen: very Covid-conscientious people, people with paid time off, people who can work from home.....testing positive for Covid and then, unless they're hospitalized, insisting on working through it:

annehelen.substack.com/p/the-normaliz…

This is a group that has the most privilege in terms of the ability to take paid time off to truly recover from Covid — and, in many cases, the least willingness to actually do so

And I get it: those of us who can work from home have worked through SO MUCH SHIT these last two years; a Covid case seems relatively small compared to, I dunno, working through an attempted coup, or a climate catastrophe, or lack of childcare

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