What 'emotional labor' actually means — and how Starbucks is testing its limits

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https://qz.com/emotional-labor-starbucks-baristas-green-apron-service-051926

Arlie Hochschild coined the term in 1983 to describe a specific workplace cost. Starbucks’ Green Apron Service is pushing it further than she imagined

Now My Blog Posts, Social Media Content, and even my Email are Shadow Banned

My voice is being silenced by social media platforms, algorithms, bias, bigotry, and so forth. Here is a Wikipedia page where my cousin Michael Pryor is quoted about shadow bans. In my case, it is Pink Banning. I haven’t seen Michael for over a decade and he’s a pretty progressive guy so I’m not going […]

From Gilead to Ladyland: how the rebellious women of literature offer hope in dark times

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/24/from-gilead-to-ladyland-how-the-rebellious-women-of-literature-offer-hope-in-dark-times

After visiting an island brothel in Bangladesh, the novelist was inspired to write an imagined uprising. She explores the radical fictional worlds where women have the power

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Caro Claire Burke’s Thriller Captures a Tradwife’s Quiet Discontent

In her 2001 memoir, _A Life’s Work,_ Rachel Cusk writes that “in motherhood, a woman exchanges her public significance for a range of private meanings.” Cusk’s feelings of invisibility and loneliness were met with relentless criticism. “I was accused of child-hating,” Cusk recounts, “of postnatal depression, of shameless greed, of irresponsibility, of pretentiousness, of selfishness, of…

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History Of Kitty Parties Will Make You Feel Bad For Judging Them

Who remembers those Friday afternoons, helping your mother get ready for a kitty party? Who remembers having to be the pre-decided caller for the evergreen game of Tambola? Who remembers your mother probably counting the earnings from the Tambola game, or if they hosted the kitty, then the earnings from that? Pretty sure, almost everyone […]

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“What Does Teleport Mean?”: Trump Responds to FEMA Official’s Story

President Donald Trump has finally weighed in on that FEMA official who claims he teleported to a Waffle House—and it’s a doozy.

Gregg Phillips, who serves as associate administrator for the Office of Response and Recovery at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has repeatedly doubled down on claims that he was instantaneously transported 50 miles to one of the popular chain restaurant’s…

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Once again, a woman takes the fall for an unpopular president

This is not a defense of Pam Bondi.

Like Kristi Noem before her, Bondi aligned herself with a political project that has shown little regard for human life, institutional norms, civil rights, or government independence. She didn't merely orbit that project, she helped animate it, defend it publicly, and carry it forward as one of its most visible faces. That kind of proximity can look like…

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Greece has highest rate of conversion therapy in Europe, survey finds

Greece has the highest rate of LGBTQ+ people exposed to conversion therapy in Europe, with nearly 40% having undergone such practices, according to data from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights included in the 2023 LGBTIQ III survey and cited in the latest ILGA-Europe report.

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‘ReWilding Red Riding Hood’ at Brisbane Anywhere Festival

BRISBANE ANYWHERE FESTIVAL MEDIA RELEASE ‘Ancestral Tales of Daring, Difficult Women- for adults’ Gather in deep in ‘The Woods’, an atmospheric bar in Mitchelton, to hear ancient folktales before they were tamed, as a part of The Brisbane Anywhere Festival. Meet the feisty, French forbear of Red Riding Hood, dauntless Janet who must rescue her […]

Feminist magazine tours campuses with talks on race and gender, taking a page from Turning Point USA

A feminist magazine is touring college campuses nationwide to host discussions on race, gender, and sexuality, stepping into a growing void as Republican-led efforts restrict how those topics can be taught.

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In February, organizers with Lux began to tour colleges nationwide, hosting…

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