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3 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Overwhelming email feedback that I somehow left the Mom labor of Elf on the Shelf out of this piece; what can I say, I'm an Old Millennial without Kids, I don't know any Elves on any Shelves

annehelen.substack.com/p/the-mom-does…
Why do we need the Elf; I grew up just fine without the Elf
This is.....so much work
How much of the labor of holidays has been transferred from religious institutions (like, the magic of advent for me when I was growing up was.....advent at church???) into the secular home

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4 Dec
I really really really really love movie theaters
I loved my old picture palace in Lewiston, Idaho growing up, I loved the cinder block multiplex with 4 screens that's now a doggy daycare, I love shiny new mall 20-plexes with 17 escalators and I really love tiny indie houses figuring out how to make it work
I love my weird rituals (no one touches the popcorn until the credits roll), I love previews, I love the weird AMC quasi-commercials, I love shushing the person behind me, I especially love going to the movies by myself
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3 Dec
Wrote about the Vacation Mom, the Cruise Director, Holiday Fucking Magic and the New Bourgeois Holiday Card.

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Oh my god how did I forget to reference this class, thank you @katypearce:

theonion.com/mom-spends-bea…
Fascinated by how many women have now told me that they have holiday cards that they made from previous years and just....kept in a drawer b/c they lost steam
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26 Nov
The federal govt has refused to act & 26 million don't have enough to eat. I spent the week talking to ad hoc orgs & mutual aid groups filling in the ever-widening gaps in the social safety net. They are *remarkable* & I hope you'll share their stories:

msnbc.com/opinion/millio…
In South Philly, Syona Arora helped launch 2 community fridges:

“Every day, the fridge empties out. Every day, it fills back up again. We hold ourselves to a high standard with what goes in the fridge, & we have a high level of respect for each other"

instagram.com/phlcommunityfr…
In W Montana, Flathead Rez Community Action is serving 100+ families a week from all over:

“We don’t ask tribal affiliation. I’d say more than half of the families we serve aren’t tribal. We also don’t ask for income verification."

ucc-jic.com/wp-content/upl…
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25 Nov
"Women experience this mandate to feed others at the same time that they absorb the message that women are more valued, & valuable, when they are beautiful, especially when they are also thin"

I talked to @EmilyContois about gender, power, Thanksgiving:

annehelen.substack.com/p/food-work
@EmilyContois "The work of idealized womanhood lies at this complex intersection of feeding others out of love, while denying our own appetites to feed ourselves so we’ll be thin and considered lovable."

annehelen.substack.com/p/food-work
When I first happened on some really troubling Intermittent Fasting threads on FB I wanted to write about it then thought nope gonna talk to someone who’s actually thought through this stuff
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24 Nov
I've been reporting a story on ad hoc, grassroots, mutual aid groups getting food to people who need it right now & aren't getting it from food banks — it is an incredible, essential service right now, chances are high there's a group in your area doing this quiet work every day
This is not to detract in any way from food banks who've had the infrastructure in place—& been doing the work—for years. But food banks are overwhelmed. People are falling through the cracks. These community fridges, mutual aid groups, & senior meal deliveries are finding them
If you're able: donate to your local bank. Then google your neighborhood, your city, your county, and "mutual aid," "COVID aid," "community fridge." You will find something, and you will find a very easy way to Venmo / PayPal / donate.
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23 Nov
There are so many things wrong with this Jeep commercial but let's start with the fact that that's a douche Jeep and everyone knows you can't keep a vehicle with your homestate plates in NYC for more than a week without getting ticketed

So she's working in the hospital in New York (where everyone is wearing masks) and then travels across the country, in what is assumed to be the present, to surprise her family? In a place with a higher infection rate than NYC?
DOES SHE HAVE A SILVER FOX BOYFRIEND

or

IS THAT HER HOT DAD?????

Montana questions
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