Archive - Burning Mom

All The Things I Have To Do That Society Deems Both Invaluable And Unvaluable

“Women & girls…carry out 12.5 billion hrs of unpaid care work every day. When valued at minimum wage this would represent a contribution to the global…

Apr 17 •

March 2024

The Consistent Culpability of Being in Possession of Female Reproductive Organs

“There is no shortage of sad stories when it comes to women and their reproductive lives.” Roxanne Gay, Bad Feminist

Mar 6 •

February 2024

Rage Sprints, Unhoused Neighbors, And The Cold Plunge Of The Political World

“No more apologies for a bleeding heart when the opposite is no heart at all. Danger of losing our humanity must be met with more humanity.” (Toni…

Feb 16 •

January 2024

The Things I Cannot Say

“No individual can live alone. No nation can live alone. And anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution.” (Dr. Martin…

Jan 26 •

December 2023

"If your spirituality is a self-improvement plan, emptied of collective care and advocacy for the oppressed, you can rightfully be suspicious of it. We…

Dec 19, 2023 •

November 2023

Burning Mom’s Unsolicited Guide To Giving Tuesday

“I got him Yankees tickets! He got me a piece of paper saying, "I've given your gift to someone else!" (George Costanza, The Strike)

Nov 28, 2023 •

October 2023

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this…

Oct 17, 2023 •

September 2023

Jody Williams, Abigail Disney, And Leveraging Rage (A Series, Part II)

"I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted...Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in…

Sep 5, 2023 •

August 2023

A Small Light, Improv, And Leveraging Rage (A Series, Part I)

“But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.” Miep Gies

Aug 21, 2023 •

July 2023

To Whom It May Concern: Texas Is Not THIS Hot

"In Texas, the average daily high temperatures in Texas have increased by 2.4 degrees — 0.8 degrees per decade — since 1993"

Jul 17, 2023 •

June 2023

I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Sunscreen

“14,000 tons of sunscreen are thought to wash into the oceans each year..."

Jun 14, 2023 •

May 2023

I’m Getting Older, And I’m Not Mad About It

(Just the healthcare, or lack thereof)

May 10, 2023 •

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