SNAP
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On Tara Westover’s “Educated.”
How can you learn to trust in a world where your beloved family member’s visage might conceal a monster?
alternate histories, alternate history, apocalypse prepping, behavioral change, Charles Reznikoff, cocaine, coke, cultural knowledge, drugs, Educated, eels, endangered eels, etymology, gaslighting, government aid, Hillbilly Elegy, history, Holocaust, Hulk smash, J.D. Vance, jail poetry, Jekyll and Hyde, memory, paranoia, perception, poetry class, poverty, preppers, prison poetry, SNAP, storytelling, Tara Westover, teaching poetry, teaching poetry in jail, The Hulk, the mutability of memory, traumatic brain injury
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On keeping someone alive.
Our bodies will go, but our values might live on.
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On Edin & Shaefer’s ‘$2.00 a Day.’
You can’t learn what it takes to survive poverty when you think about people as numbers.
$2.00 a Day, budget, ethnography, Evicted, extreme poverty, food deserts, food insecurity, food stamps, H. Luke Shaefer, Hand to Mouth, high cost of rent in the United States, Kathyrn Edin, Linda Tirado, Living on Almost Nothing in America, Matthew Desmond, Paul Theroux, people want jobs, poverty, PTSD, sexual assault, SNAP, The Hypocrisy of Helping the Poor
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