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July 9, 2019 by admin
Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Socialist Match
Jewish female, Democratic Socialist, seeks male companion to study Marx’s Capital with Secular anti-Zionist Jew…Extreme Capricorn. Interested in climate justice …Looking for someone to bug all the time.
What makes these personal ads different from all others? They’re listed through Red Yenta, a project of Mindy Isser and Marissa Brostoff, who met online under the shared goal of helping their fellow socialists, anarchists and Marxists find love. It’s not explicitly Jewish, but the listings have an Emma Goldman flavor to them.
Using existing social media, they encourage participants to create alternate accounts, for safety and anonymity. Allowing members to explicitly state what kind of relationship they want helps attract “queer people, trans people, people who are poly or exploring nontraditional relationships,” says Isser. One obstacle? Numbers There may be more and more socialists, but are there enough to sustain the project? “We don’t really know what happens next,” says Brostoff.
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November 15, 2018 by Elana Rebitzer
What Happens in the Real World Stays There
While at summer camp, my campers aren’t allowed to have their phones on them. There are a multitude of reasons for our no-phone policy, but high among them is that we “disconnect to reconnect.” By removing internet access from our campers, we staffers create an immersive environment that can’t easily be affected by the happenings of the outside world. Even though staff members do have access to our phones, we have collectively agreed not to share with our children whatever information we learn.
If a counselor is having a bad day, that information ideally stays among the staff. This way, in the interest of allowing the campers to focus on having a fun and fulfilling summer, we create a world where news from the outside world, from celebrity engagements to mass shootings, does not penetrate.
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June 21, 2018 by JoAnn Abraham
The Cloth Mother and Trauma at the Border
As you read this, more than 11,000 children captured while trying to enter the U.S. across the border with Mexico are warehoused in more than 100 facilities in 17 states. The thousands of children separated from their families in recent weeks are scattered across the country, and there is no coherent plan apparent to reconnect them with their relatives.
I keep thinking about Baby 106.
In the 1950s, American psychologist Dr. Harry Harlow used baby rhesus monkeys for groundbreaking research on childhood attachment. One of his subjects, Baby 106, was taken from its mother at birth and placed in a cage. Eventually it was introduced to two “mothers,” that were actually wire cylinders. One had a protruding nipple connected to a bottle of milk. The other, with no nipple, was covered in cloth. The baby monkey initially went to the wire mother and suckled. Then it went, and stayed, with the cloth mother, the one that offered some tactile comfort.
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June 20, 2018 by Jordana Horn
Stop Arguing About Holocaust Analogies and Do Something
Please, let’s not lightly throw around Holocaust analogies – but perhaps equally important, let’s not argue about whether or not we need to throw around the Holocaust analogies. The Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” policy which has led to internment camps for children is truly horrifying. On this point, thankfully, many, many people seem to be in agreement.
But are they “concentration camps” “just like the Nazis had for the Jews”?
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