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Sociologist. Author. Professor. Roosevelt Institute Fellow. Expert on families, schools, kids, privilege, and power. Bylines in NYT, WaPo, MSNBC, Atlantic, etc.
"Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women."
@jessicacalarco.comThere's a lot of great food in Providence, but my go-to favorite will always be the East Side Pockets falafel wrap.
@jbendery.bsky.socialReposted by @jessicacalarco.com"I'm a pro-choice Republican," Minnesota GOP Senate nominee Michele Tafoya claims in a new ad...
...except she's hailed the demise of Roe v. Wade, vowed to confirm conservative judges, routinely backed a 12-week abortion ban and gaslighting anyone, what? www.huffpost.com/entry/michel...
@jakemgrumbach.bsky.socialReposted by @jessicacalarco.comEverything so on the nose these days
@moiradonegan.bsky.socialReposted by @jessicacalarco.comThis is also just empirically untrue as a matter of reading consumption: women do, in fact, read books by men. It’s men who do not read books by women. I suspect the reason is not “biological.”
@jessicacalarco.comNo, just for fun at home. She doesn't have any formal art training, but during the first couple years of covid, she spent a lot of time watching how-to art videos and practicing different techniques.
@jessicacalarco.comShe hasn't yet, but she does love making spectacularly personalized birthday and thank you cards for family, friends, teachers, etc.
@jessicacalarco.comYeah, acrylic on canvas. Paint is not my favorite medium, so this is super cool to me.
@jessicacalarco.comThanks 😊
@jessicacalarco.comIt does!
@jessicacalarco.comKind of obsessed with this spooky season scene my 12-year-old painted today.
@maddow.bsky.socialReposted by @jessicacalarco.com"People sometimes get involved in elections because they are skeptical of how they work. Then they discover that the problems they expected to find are not there..."
@jessicacalarco.comHere's another one that gives context to the video above:
@jessicacalarco.comThe algorithm has been inundating my husband with videos of people being interviewed for jobs by AI agents. And I don't understand how any of this passes muster with Legal or HR. Unless, I guess, Legal and HR have already themselves been replaced by AI.
@jessicacalarco.comAs I show in this article, depending on privileged families for donations makes schools hesitant to hold those families' kids accountable when they break the rules. So, it makes sense that schools would be similarly wary of punishing likely future big donors.
@jessicacalarco.comIt's a classic case of privilege dependence discouraging enforcement of rules.
“Greek life [alums] are far likelier than their non-Greek counterparts to donate to their institution—with 54% of [Greek alums] donating... as opposed to 10% of nonaffiliated alums.”
@jessicacalarco.comWelcome to my (online) life : )
@jessicacalarco.comIf the goal is solely to convey content/ideas, I'd clean up the text more, for maximum readability. If you also want to capture voice/identity, then I'd do more a minimal cleanup for basic legibility. Either way, instead of (sic), I'd just explain the cleanup approach used in the methods section.
@jessicacalarco.comLiterally.
@ivan812.bsky.socialReposted by @jessicacalarco.comThere's a really moving passage towards the end of @adellewaldman.bsky.social's *Help Wanted* about why the novel's big-box-store workers never get together outside of work. No one has space or $, no one's schedules match, etc. Powerfully sums up the materialist substrate of social life
@jessicacalarco.comNotably, this is the first year our neighbors have put up a sign asking for venmo donations, with the explanation "electricity is expensive."
