#sara jaffe

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The sun was making so many good patterns. I loved the way it hid us as much as how it shone on us.

Sara Jaffe

[themotivationjournals]

The sun was making so many good patterns. I loved the way it hid us as much as how it shone on us.

Sara Jaffe, Dryland

[girlwithlandscape]

Queer Time: The Alternative to “Adulting” | JSTOR Daily

Queer scholar Jack Halberstam’s 2005 book In a Queer Time and Place argues that “queer uses of time and space develop… in opposition to the institutions of family, heterosexuality, and reproduction.” Queerness itself is “an outcome of strange temporalities, imaginative life schedules, and eccentric economic practices.” It is inflected by time-warping experiences as diverse as coming out, gender transitions, and generation-defining tragedies such as the AIDS epidemic. That is, queerness is constituted by its difference from conventional imperatives of time.

The concept of queer time offers an alternative to the notion that one ought to discontinue particular practices or behaviors simply because one has “aged out” of them.

[theoffingmag]

“I can tell from your body language that you’re not experiencing yourself as ‘seen’ right now,” my therapist said. “Let’s dig. Do you feel scared? Sad? Threatened?” In therapy, I was used to experiencing myself as a sieve, a bum mirror, a talking machine. My body language was typically involuntary. “Scared?” I said, though that sounded so much more specific. Around us, potted plants offered oxygen.

Sara Jaffe, “Unsafe Is Not A Feeling,” published in The Offing

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“Baby in a Bar” calls up the societal pressure placed on mothers to perform their motherhood in the “correct” way and the extra scrutiny placed on non-heteronormative families to meet and even exceed these expectations, as if demanding they make up for something. Is she talking to her baby enough? Is she feeding him the right foods? Is she exposing him to too much or too little brain stimulation? Is she performing her love in the correct and most beneficial-for-her-baby way? These doubts, forced on mothers by society, can gain too much power, can dictate otherwise natural decisions, can consume a woman’s identity whole.

THIS WEEK IN SHORT FICTION, Claire Burgess reviews “Baby In A Bar” by Sara Jaffe.

You can read “Baby In A Bar” at Catapult.

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I think we need to make space for the grief people are carrying about the unrealized potential for transformation that we experienced, and also for the grief people carry because we, as human beings, have disappointed each other. I think when we don’t make space to address those feelings in real ways, or feel the fullness of them, we get stuck in our anger. Because anger is easier than the rest of it. 

Kelly Hayes in a discussion with Sara Jaffee about her new book at Movement Memos in TruthOut. From the Ashes: How Grief Shapes Our Struggles

From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire by Sara Jaffe

This conversation Iexposed me to some ideas I need to study and ponder and that's going totake some time.

[jrmilazzo]

You Don’t Have to Love Your Job

What if workers channeled their passion into organizing for better pay and conditions instead?

<< Both care and creativity supposedly stand outside the capitalist drive to extract profit from labor. That’s why the labor-of-love myth is so effective in aiding it. Convince people that they are doing something they love, and how can they demand better working conditions? A former Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains employee tells Jaffe that the organization fought a fledgling union by claiming that management and labor were all “family.” And who would threaten to strike against family? Whereas other writers, confronting this rhetoric, have urged us to stop loving our jobs, Jaffe shows how workers can turn the love of work into a tool they can leverage against their bosses. >>

[catapultbooks]

When I was out walking with my baby and we passed other presumed parents with their babies, as I spoke audibly to my baby about the world, I didn’t know how the other parents saw me, or who they saw me as. Was I mother, father, “aunt,” nanny? Did I look the appropriate age to be a parent of this baby? Did the casualness of my clothing not match the pedigree of my stroller? Why was everybody so touched to see dads in the park with their babies on a Saturday morning, letting the moms sleep in?

Catapult | Baby in a Bar | Sara Jaffe