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Terror as Public Policy: How Terrorism Breeds Terror Policies, Guest Post by Maria Hartwig and Mark Fallon
Maria Hartwig and Mark Fallon, who previously contributed the important and popular guest post on state-sponsored bullshit, are back with another timely, insightful, and significant piece. I thank them for sharing it here.
Being the Change We Single People Want to See: Guest Post by Jaclyn Geller
Photo by David Justice
Jaclyn Geller is guest-posting here to share her bold (and sometimes hilarious) Call to Action for single people who are tired of the pervasive unfairness that advantages married people and deeply disadvantages anyone who is not officially married. Geller, an English professor and author of Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystique, has long been at the cutting edge of thinking on matters of fairness for people who are not married. I have been hosting her guest posts since 2009.
It’s a Pandemic and These Single People Have Been Doing Fine
Heard that all single people have been crushed by the pandemic? Don’t believe it.
It seems like every major publication has featured some article pitying those single people whose lives have been ruined during the pandemic. I’m not unsympathetic – some single people really have been having a hard time, and their stories deserve to be told.
What I object to, vociferously, is the implication that their stories represent the only ways that single people experience the pandemic. In December 2020, I started inviting single people to share their pandemic experiences with me. Dozens have done so. I wrote about them in three articles, described below. I thank them again for sharing their stories.
The Views Expressed are Those of the Artist: Guest Post by Mark Fallon
My Keynote Address for the Conference, Singles Studies: Global Perspectives
On Saturday October 10, 2020, I will be giving the keynote address for the online conference, Singles Studies: Global Perspectives. You can read more about it here. If it is not yet Oct 10, you can register here. This is the text of my talk, so you can follow along or just read it when it is convenient.
