linkspam: feminist exhaustion, working at ICE

[lotesse]

The Great Feminist Exhaustion from Anne Helen Petersen's Culture Study (and comments) : "feminist exhaustion, which applies to the generations of women who understand their progressive, aspirationally intersectional, progressive world view as feminist … and find themselves utterly demoralized by a long, damaging fight that now seems to have lost ground."

Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE by Yanis Varoufuckice:"Naturally there were a large number of law enforcement types hanging around the convention—men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the bible and the constitution and eagles and flags distended across their arms. But there were also a handful of women ICE applicants and a lot of men of color. The deportation officer applicant pool was, I felt, shockingly diverse—one might say it looked like America. The whole place looked and felt like America."

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

Wow, that Petersen article was spot on! Thank you for the link. I forwarded it to a couple of friends.

[executrix]

One of the volunteers trying to help detainee families at the Delaney Hall detention center in New Jersey is holding a job fair for Delaney Hall employees, to tell them they DO have other ways of earning a living.