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In this episode, an installment of the #ComradeMommy series, I discuss domestic work, how the women who perform it are made invisible, and what should be done to secure their rights.

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Readings & Resources

"Out of the Shadows"

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/national-domestic-workers-alliance.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=80560529BCACC56EAF348EF466B3DF02&gwt=regi&assetType=REGIWALL

"Não romantize as relações de trabalho: sua empregada não é quase da família"

https://www.uol.com.br/universa/colunas/cris-guterres/2021/02/23/sua-empregada-nao-e-quase-da-familia.htm?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&utm_content=geral&utm_campaign=universa&fbclid=IwAR0jLj1MnbWLB0R7byLhhEeVedFM9Jh2lTDQkNb62xrpoqKBB3hc2eklsSc

A Feminism Where 'Lean In' Means Leaning On Others

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/a-feminism-where-leaning-in-means-leaning-on-others/

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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone

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In this episode, we speak with Professor Yannick Marshall about his research on colonialism in Kenya, anti-colonialism around the world, and the need to expand the political imagination.

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Work by Yannick Marshall

https://www.yannickmarshall.net/

An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History

https://www.aaihs.org/an-appeal-bring-the-maroon-to-the-foreground-in-black-intellectual-history/

Black liberal, your time is up

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/6/1/black-liberal-your-time-is-up

There Is No ‘Relatively Benign’ Version of Settler-Colonialism

https://www.aaihs.org/canada-is-not-a-relatively-benign-version-of-settler-colonialism/

On Kenosha and the difficulty of recognising Nazism in the US

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/9/8/on-kenosha-and-the-difficulty-of-recognising-nazism-in-the-us

After this election, we should not come together

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/11/16/after-this-election-we-should-not-come-together

Additional Readings:

Maroons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroons

On imperialism and the current situation in Haiti

https://t.co/QHzbxKrSJa?amp=1

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In this episode, we discuss current news and catch up after our break.


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Readings & Resources

Osita Nwanevu - “The Democratic Party Has a Fatal Misunderstanding of the QAnon Phenomenon”

https://newrepublic.com/article/161266/qanon-classism-marjorie-taylor-greene

Ashley Reese - “The Cynical, Sexist Fantasy of AOC”

https://theslot.jezebel.com/the-cynical-sexist-fantasy-of-aoc-1846189707

Jia Tolentino - “What Mutual Aid Can Do During a Pandemic”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/18/what-mutual-aid-can-do-during-a-pandemic

Edward Ongweso, Jr. - “Investment Firms Are the Big Winners of the GameStop Stock Revolution So Far”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3gepx/investment-firms-are-the-big-winners-of-the-gamestop-stock-revolution-so-far

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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone


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In this episode, an installment of the #ComradeMommy series, I discuss the need for giving and the correlation between the teachings of Maria Montessori and leftist ideology.

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Readings & Resources

Montessori at Home - What Is Montessori? (& Why Do It?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZEdP_RZhhI&list=PLdIZMnmUhOo4QquwIjMI7cAlyoykpo1-M&index=1&t=24s

Maria Montessori: What You May Not Know

https://www.montessoriservices.com/ideas-insights/maria-montessori-what-you-may-not-know#:~:text=In%201933%2C%20denying%20any%20political,and%20later%20in%20The%20Netherlands.

*Correction: Montessori left her son at a foster home temporarily, not an aunt, but she pretended to be his aunt during her visits to him there.

Left POCket Project Podcast: Reading Revolution series on Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed

https://soundcloud.com/leftpoc/sets/readingrevolution-freire

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In this episode, we discuss current news and the challenges that lie ahead.

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In this episode, part of the Comrade Mommy series, Wendi discusses the ways the pandemic has shifted gender roles - and not always for the better.

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Music: "My Life as a Video Game" by Michael Salamone

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Readings & Resources

Women's Careers Could Take Long-Term Hit From Coronavirus Pandemic

https://www.wsj.com/articles/womens-careers-could-take-long-term-hit-from-coronavirus-pandemic-11594814403

How the Coronavirus Crisis Threatens to Set Back Women’s Careers

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-coronavirus-crisis-threatens-to-set-back-womens-careers-11601438460

Here’s How the Pandemic Is Affecting Women’s Careers

wsj.com/articles/heres-how-the-pandemic-is-affecting-womens-careers-11601920650

Women academics seem to be submitting fewer papers during coronavirus

https://www.thelily.com/women-academics-seem-to-be-submitting-fewer-papers-during-coronavirus-never-seen-anything-like-it-says-one-editor/

How COVID-19 Sent Women’s Workforce Progress Backward

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2020/10/30/492582/covid-19-sent-womens-workforce-progress-backward/

Pandemic Could Scar a Generation of Working Mothers

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/business/economy/coronavirus-working-women.html

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In this episode, part of the Comrade Mommy series, Wendi discusses the election, politics, and how to broach the subject with children.

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In this episode, part of the Reading Revolution series, we discuss Che Guevara’s 1964 speech to the United Nations “Colonialism Is Doomed,” regarding the ongoing independence movements throughout the world and Cuba’s solidarity with oppressed peoples in their fight for sovereignty.

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Readings & Resources

Che Guevara - “Colonialism Is Doomed” 1964 Speech to the United Nations

https://www.marxists.org/archive/guevara/1964/12/11-alt.htm

Ada Ferrer - Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898

https://uncpress.org/book/9780807847831/insurgent-cuba/

Aviva Chomsky - A History of the Cuban Revolution

https://www.bookdepository.com/History-Cuban-Revolution-Aviva-Chomsky/9781118942284

Vijay Prashad - The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

https://thenewpress.com/books/darker-nations

Gregory Mann - Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century

https://www.dukeupress.edu/native-sons

Christine Hatzky - Cubans in Angola: South-South Cooperation and Transfer of Knowledge, 1976-1991

https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5216.htm

Assata Shakur - Assata: An Autobiography

https://www.mahoganybooks.com/9781556520747

about the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assata:_An_Autobiography

Che Guevara on Face the Nation (1964)

https://youtu.be/mzmOHy6Ine0

Che Guevara’s 1964 Address to the United Nations (excerpt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bufHojkoGtw

Hannah Allam - "'I Am Antifa': One Activist's Violent Death Became A Symbol For The Right And Left"

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/23/893533916/i-am-antifa-one-activist-s-violent-death-became-a-symbol-for-the-right-and-left

Black Alliance for Peace - International Day of Action on Africom

https://blackallianceforpeace.com/dayofactiononafricom?fbclid=IwAR1coF17j2EVFXIawscICHVqy50D32TRuyEmtyQix7Q9KKKfP1VhlEu0OZ4

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In this episode, part of the Comrade Mommy series, Wendi discusses the meaning of "choice" and what it can mean beyond the rhetoric.

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Readings & Resources

The Grapevine - Black Women & Childbirth

Sanoja Bhaumik - "In the 1970s, Racism Led to Women Being Sterilized Against Their Will. Could It Happen Again?"

https://rewirenewsgroup.com/article/2020/09/14/in-the-1970s-racism-led-to-women-being-sterilized-against-their-will-could-it-happen-again/

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In this episode, I discuss Comrade Mommy (@ComradeMommy), a new sub-series of the Left POCket Project Podcast.

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