Rickey Gard Diamond
Everyone has a personal economic story. We're just not encouraged to claim it. Everyone knows economics isn't personal! But we can no longer pretend, as does Wall Street, that everyone and everything we love is disconnected from the numbers on the DOW and GDP. So I'm currently working on a personal handbook to go with my soon-to-be-released book, Screwnomics: How the Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change (April 3, 2018).
Where Can I Get Some Change? will be designed to help women claim their own story, and reflect on it in the light of Screwnomic's chapters with its unpacked definitions, history, and new ideas. You won't need a Ph.D. The workbook will also suggest discussion questions for a book group that will help women support each other, as you gather to share a glass of wine or cup of coffee, and share what you learned about your economy and yourself. Believe me, it makes the subject MUCH more fun--as it should be.
Here in Vermont we're starting to form what I've named EconoGirlfriend groups to do just that. How will it work? We'll find out! We hope to gather data on what works in these groups or doesn't. Then we'll spread the idea with improvements and additions. Our goal is to begin an #EconomicMeToo movement, and to help women talk together about our last taboo, money.
I say "our goal" and "we" because economist and educator Susan Mesner and violence prevention educator Meg Kuhner are helping me design and evaluate the workbook. So are Tiffany Bluemle and Jessica Nordhaus. So I'll add my thanks here to the two pages' worth of marvelous people already acknowledged in Screwnomics.
in case you've forgotten, my word Screwnomics names what is now largely invisible: the widely applied economic theory that women should always work for less, or better, for free. That includes our mother earth. And it includes those girly-men who work at jobs like nursing or teaching, or do housework or childcare at home—what is generally thought of as "women's work."
Screwing is not love-making. It's essentially to be forced against your will, humiliated and controlled. Right now, being almost exclusively masculine, our economics is waged as war. But both genders CAN join to create an economy that wages life—but not until more women understand it.
Where Can I Get Some Change will not only help you reflect and share, but also introduce you to many more resources and allies for whatever particular part of the economy's million parts you feel most passionate about! Thanks so much for this question. I'd love to know what you think. You can learn more at www.screwnomics.org
Where Can I Get Some Change? will be designed to help women claim their own story, and reflect on it in the light of Screwnomic's chapters with its unpacked definitions, history, and new ideas. You won't need a Ph.D. The workbook will also suggest discussion questions for a book group that will help women support each other, as you gather to share a glass of wine or cup of coffee, and share what you learned about your economy and yourself. Believe me, it makes the subject MUCH more fun--as it should be.
Here in Vermont we're starting to form what I've named EconoGirlfriend groups to do just that. How will it work? We'll find out! We hope to gather data on what works in these groups or doesn't. Then we'll spread the idea with improvements and additions. Our goal is to begin an #EconomicMeToo movement, and to help women talk together about our last taboo, money.
I say "our goal" and "we" because economist and educator Susan Mesner and violence prevention educator Meg Kuhner are helping me design and evaluate the workbook. So are Tiffany Bluemle and Jessica Nordhaus. So I'll add my thanks here to the two pages' worth of marvelous people already acknowledged in Screwnomics.
in case you've forgotten, my word Screwnomics names what is now largely invisible: the widely applied economic theory that women should always work for less, or better, for free. That includes our mother earth. And it includes those girly-men who work at jobs like nursing or teaching, or do housework or childcare at home—what is generally thought of as "women's work."
Screwing is not love-making. It's essentially to be forced against your will, humiliated and controlled. Right now, being almost exclusively masculine, our economics is waged as war. But both genders CAN join to create an economy that wages life—but not until more women understand it.
Where Can I Get Some Change will not only help you reflect and share, but also introduce you to many more resources and allies for whatever particular part of the economy's million parts you feel most passionate about! Thanks so much for this question. I'd love to know what you think. You can learn more at www.screwnomics.org
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