Category: Systemic
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Policy, Power, and Parenthood: How U.S. Fiscal Choices Shape the Lives of Single Mothers (2020–2025)
(Feminist Academic & Policy Analyst) Between 2020 and 2025, the United States underwent some of the most turbulent economic and political shifts in decades. From pandemic recovery packages to major tax reform bills, these policies shaped not only GDP curves but the lived realities of millions of families — especially single mothers, who continue to…
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Reframing the Devil’s Punchbowl: A Feminist Historiography of Memory, Trauma, and Survival
In the turbulent years following the American Civil War, the site known as the Devil’s Punchbowl near Natchez, Mississippi, has emerged in both historical discourse and popular memory as a locus of catastrophic suffering for newly freed African Americans. While accounts vary in their specifics, a general narrative holds that this bowl-shaped natural hollow was…