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Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.bsky.social |
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sociologist | writer | professor at UW Madison | families, schools, inequalities | qualitative methods | she/her | mom of two hams
new book: holding it together--how women became america's safety net (portfolio/penguin, 2024)
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UW-Madison Sociology
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“My hope is that through a book like this, people will be able to better understand why people are struggling, even if (others’) circumstances are very different from their own.” -Jessica Calarco @jessicacalarco.bsky.social
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Rainesford Stauffer
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Paid writing opp: 100 Days in Appalachia is looking for politics-related pitches in the lead up to 2024 elections from writers in the region ages 13-24 (for a youth vertical). Pay starts at $200 for opinion, $300+ for reporting. Happy to help brainstorm ideas: rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com or DM.
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Shiv Ramdas
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Project 2025 will ban sunday sportsball and beer is a message with really serious legs, there is a whole genre of Americans who will put up with basically anything except no football sunday
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Jess Calarco
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My sister has four kids ages 2-8, so probably not much more than me : )
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Kevin M. Kruse
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It's time to revisit the idea of expanding the Supreme Court, which means it's time to dismiss the misunderstandings about FDR's "Court-packing controversy."
kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/unpacking-...
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Jess Calarco
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(I'm about 3 inches shorter than my mom and my sister, which is also how much taller the doctors estimated I would be if not for the spinal curves).
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Jess Calarco
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7-year-old: Mom, you don't sleep enough. Maybe that's why you're so short. Me: I'm pretty sure it's the scoliosis, but I hear your point.
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Neil Lewis, Jr.
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"It’s become hard to shake the feeling that America has simply lost the capacity to build things in the real world, outside of an app."
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)
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This is the intellectual incoherence of ideology discourse in the US, in news & academia. Y’all are confusing rhetorical rationales (often gaslighting) for motives! Be a little less gullible!
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Jess Calarco
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The death of Build Back Better--and the fact that Americans didn't stage a mass revolt in the wake of that death--proved that the political power of wealth has reached the point where the will of the people no longer matters.
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Jess Calarco
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Killing Build Back Better--an overwhelmingly popular set of safety net policies--was their trial run for whether they could get Project 2025 to fly.
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Jess Calarco
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The Swifties in Zurich showed my 10-year-old a lot of love last night. She came back from the concert with an armful of bracelets, and despite only getting 3 hours of sleep, she was still grinning when we got to the airport for our very early flight home today.
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Jess Calarco
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Oh this looks great! Congratulations!
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Melanie D’Arrigo
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Sociopathic capitalism: Private Equity firms are buying up asbestos liability claims and gambling that poisoning victims will die, or go broke trying to get compensated for the damages they’re owed. Wall St calls this an “investment.”
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Jess Calarco
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All dressed and ready for their day of daddy/daughter fun!
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Jess Calarco
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It would have been so hard for her to wait for today otherwise - I definitely think it was the right call.
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Jess Calarco
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For the last day of our vacation, Dan Calarco surprised our Taylor Swift-obsessed 10-year-old with tickets to the Eras Tour show in Zurich. We waited to tell her, because we figured she wouldn't sleep the rest of the trip otherwise. And the look on her face was priceless ❤️
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Jess Calarco
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This story about middle schoolers' vicious online impersonation of teachers is a troubling illustration of the power of privilege in schools, including its power in exempting affluent White kids from consequences and rules. 1/
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/t...
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Amanda Marcotte
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This couldn't be better timed, since folks are feeling demoralized. Hard as it may be to believe, but politics can be good for mental health.
Authors Emily Amick and Sami Sage explain how in their new book. Check out my interview with Emily!
www.salon.com/2024/07/09/p...
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Paul Rosenberg
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I wrote about this fiasco & its context yesterday for Salon: salon.com/2024/07/07/t...
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Jess Calarco
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I suspect this case in Malvern isn't a one-off. And I suspect this and similar cases will not only make it harder to fill already growing shortages of teachers but also amplify inequalities by making teachers even more reluctant to hold privileged kids accountable to rules. 7/
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Jess Calarco
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If anything, the students involved seem to feel entitled to continue the abuse. The article quotes a student saying "We’re back, and we’ll be posting again. And we are going to private all the videos at the beginning of next school year, 'cause then they can’t do anything.” 6/
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Jess Calarco
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Meanwhile, the students involved are showing little remorse for their actions. As the article notes, "'Move on. Learn to joke,' the other student said about a teacher. 'I am 13 years old,' she added, using an expletive for emphasis, 'and you’re like 40 going on 50.'" 5/
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Jess Calarco
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This is exactly what we see in the Malvern, PA case. In the wake of vicious online impersonation from students in the school in a wealthy, mostly White suburban community, "Some teachers are now hesitant to call out pupils who act up in class," out of fear of online reprisal. 4/
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Jess Calarco
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That kind of immunity from consequences then amplifies the sense of entitlement that highly privileged kids (and parents) feel and express in their interactions with teachers at school. 3/
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Jess Calarco
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As I show in a 2020 @ASRJournal paper, public schools are often afraid to hold affluent White kids accountable to rules. Because they fear conflict with parents/kids with the power to hurt them personally or threaten the resources on which they depend. 2/
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Jess Calarco
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This story about middle schoolers' vicious online impersonation of teachers is a troubling illustration of the power of privilege in schools, including its power in exempting affluent White kids from consequences and rules. 1/
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/t...
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Sophia, MPH
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👇🏻Many infections start with kids in school. My family’s did. One kid only experienced a couple days of mild GI symptoms — but remained + for nearly 2 weeks. No one in our household developed a fever, though several of us felt miserable. Without testing, we could have contributed to a lot of spread!
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UW-Madison Sociology
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In Holding It Together, @jessicacalarco.bsky.social draws on five years of research to reveal a systematic agreement to dismantle our country’s social safety net and persuade citizens to accept precarity while women bear the brunt.
sociology.wisc.edu/2024/07/02/j...
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Jess Calarco
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Thanks for sharing ❤️
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Jess Calarco
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I suspect we've far undercounted the impact on so many fronts.
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Jess Calarco
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I'm so sorry you're still suffering.
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Jess Calarco
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I wonder sometimes how many cases of Covid went untested and undiagnosed in kids because parents assumed "it's just a stomach bug."
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Jess Calarco
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Both times my family has gotten Covid, it started with one of the kids. Both times, the kids' first and primary symptom was nausea/vomiting. And both times, people thought I was crazy to test them because they were throwing up.
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/w...
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Jess Calarco
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Jess Calarco
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Though this particular church (the Cathedral in St. Gallen, Switzerland) post-dated the 95 Theses by about 200 years.
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Jess Calarco
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The extravagance of European Catholic churches makes it easy to see what Martin Luther was complaining about.
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Jess Calarco
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I thought the cows on the northern California coast had the best life, but I'm pretty sure the Swiss Alps cows have them beat.
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This book is so important. Highly recommend!
Well done, @jessicacalarco.bsky.social 👏👏👏
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Jess Calarco
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Thank you so much for reading! I'm very glad to hear that the book resonated with you.
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Jess Calarco
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This is a cool way to build community. The town where we're staying in Switzerland set up tents in the square with a big screen showing the Switzerland-England Euro match. There's food and drinks and it seems like (despite the rainy weather) everyone in town came out.
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Jess Calarco
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Indeed!
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Jess Calarco
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Dan: "It's just like driving the BQE!" Me: "I'm pretty sure this [the highway around Lake Lucerne] has a prettier view."
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Jess Calarco
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"Um, hey guys - you might want to put down your tablets and look out the window"
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Jess Calarco
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When it comes to vacations, do you prefer a "maximum idle" or "minimum idle" approach?
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Jess Calarco
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Growing up, vacations with my parents were what my dad calls "maximum idle" (mostly lounging on the beach all day for a week). With my husband, vacations are more like "minimum idle" (packing as much as possible into every trip and every day).
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Jess Calarco
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The Swiss town of Stoos has a playground at the top of a mountain, where kids can literally play above the clouds. It's reachable either by day-long hike or by taking the world's steepest funicular to a chair lift to another chair lift and then hiking a short distance to the top.
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Melody Schreiber
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I never thought about it like this and my mind is kinda blown
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Don Moynihan
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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.
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Meghan Wilson Duff
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No one asked my opinion on this, but I think it is extra creepy that young people felt like they needed to do that.
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