I would say that most of those writers were financially independent men whose wives did all the childcare and housework so they had oodles of writing time. Now most writers have other jobs, and more men and most women balance home life - relationships, children, elder care

On healing the unforgivable, or what comes after the ceasefire. open.substack.com/pub/rachelhill…

'At the very least, I think we could do with taking an honest look at the way that frequent air travel has become a status symbol for the professional class, in the same way that private jet use is a status symbol for the aspirational upper class.' rachelhills.substack.com/p/january-was-…

I (like everyone else) am at Substack now: at Heart Talk, a new newsletter about matters of the heart from a feminist and philosophical perspective. rachelhills.substack.com/p/welcome-to-h…

The conversation about climate change and kids is 'almost entirely on whether to parent, not *how* to parent, and on theoretical kids, not actual kids' - Anya Kamenetz at The Cut thecut.com/2023/12/dont-l…

'The problems are there. The audience is there. The writers are there. But the places that published us, that made 'feminist media' a thing you could take for granted or even get sick of: Those are gone.' Jude "'The Neighbors' CE Is Out Now" Doyle on the end of Jezebel. judedoyle.medium.com/its-the-end-of…

'it takes a sharply insular and misanthropic person to feel that what goes on in an average party really counts as anything like the requisite encounter with one’s fellow human animal.' theschooloflife.com/article/why-tr…

NYC Nannies Built an Underground Care Economy That Should Inspire US Policy

`A circle of nannies in New York City created an underground care economy that challenges us to dream bigger.'

truthout.org/articles/nyc-n…

A wise person once said that you will experience climate change through a series of increasingly wild videos, until you are the one taking the video.

Boy math is paying $44 billion for a $25 billion company and, through business smarts and entrepreneurial know how, turning it into an $8.8 billion company

Thank you, John Farnham. We are all in this together - our voices matter! 🫶🏾

smh.com.au/politics/feder…

We are at our most likeable as artists (and people) when we are most willing to be disliked.