If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

"Tasteless" does not even begin to describe what is happening here.

Ghouls

🥗 Latest SNAP data (through 6-2025): doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

Nice personal news to share among all of this political misery. Just sold my new book Terra Infirma to @pantheonbooks.bsky.social & editor @deniseoswald.bsky.social, Squeezed's editor. Thanks @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social and @economichardship.bsky.social Read about it in @publisherswkly.bsky.social

Oof we've got a lot of work to do to counter these persistent myths about poverty. Right @alissaquart.bsky.social?

It has been three years and one day since Barbara Ehrenreich left us. She meant a great deal to me personally and professionally, as a literary and political figure & weirdly, as a metaphysical guide. Here we are after a book event I did with BE in Vogue. @economichardship.bsky.social @ips-dc.org

My latest story for @timemagazine.bsky.social on Labor Day, Labor Day Sales and the American Dream. A very personal essay time.com/7313480/labo... @eccobooks.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social @maiasz.bsky.social @maassp.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social

God, "Magnolia" is so freaking good. One of the great movies about seemingly disconnected lives in Los Angeles, what Alissa Quart described as "hyperlink cinema." That millennial anxiety about how we're all simultaneous separate and intertwined, and how that breaks us.

🥗 Really thought-provoking essay by @alissaquart.bsky.social on “citizenship insecurity”. What is America anymore? When is it ok/imperative to expand citizenship options? When is it time to leave America? Answers change based on privilege. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My new piece on what I call "citizen insecurity" in @theguardian.com @economichardship.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social

fabulous piece by @lisquart about the dislocation so many of us feel as the U.S. abandons any pretense of even having democratic ideals.... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For any of you still on here, this is my piece about my mother, art, affordability and mortality in @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com @hyperallergic.com @mollyjongfast.bsky.social @artforum.com @artnews.com.web.brid.gy @anya1anya.bsky.social

Beautiful tribute/ layered musing on creativity and life by @alissaquart.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/o...

Ford Foundation Makes Landmark Contribution to Economic Hardship Reporting Project for Social Justice Storytelling#USA#Brooklyn#Ford_Foundation#EHRP#Building_Institutions

@evanurquhart.bsky.social I know this isn't your point, but anyone interested in that focus need to read and support the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. https://economichardship.org/

Amazing news I can now share! Our organization @economichardship.bsky.social just received at $1.65 million BUILD grant @fordfoundation.org for five years. Thanks so much (esp. Lolly Bowean)! Appreciate u @deborahjianlee.bsky.social! @insidephilanthropy.com @npquarterly.bsky.social

Amazing news I can now share! Our organization @economichardship.bsky.social just received at $1.65 million BUILD grant @fordfoundation.org for five years. Thanks so much (esp. Lolly Bowean)! Appreciate u @deborahjianlee.bsky.social! @insidephilanthropy.com @npquarterly.bsky.social

The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.

Bombing Iran. Cuomo still fooling NYC. Then this beautiful literary magazine arrives and I went to my friend's stoop sale and worked on poetry with my friend @celinasu.bsky.social and the day was a little better.

My brilliant and complicated teacher Cole Heinowitz has died. I'll never forget her. www.thedailycatch.org/articles/bar...

You can’t pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and there are no bootstraps. Or boots. Poverty is systemic and the blame belongs with the system, not the individual. Read @alissaquart.bsky.social and you’ll never see poverty the same way again.

Honored to be talking to Joan Williams-- a heroine-- at on June 12 at 7 a @92ndstreety.bsky.social Streaming, so listen in! We are discussing her new book Outclassed and social class in media and on the Left and probably Bootstrapped. And @economichardship.bsky.social

I wrote for #LitHub and @economichardship.bsky.social about the bizarre kitsch of Trump and Vance going about dolls. Social class kitsch. They have taken a real issue-- kid consumerism-- and turned it into sexist gibberish. #branded

Hey there! Poem page with @celinasu.bsky.social in @currentaffairs.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social Check it out @poetrydaily.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org

Journalism and Sovereignty compete and the latter wins...thank goodness no one named their horse Oligarchy. #kentuckyderby #journalism

I should have mentioned that the writer's name is Alissa Quart and the book is called Bootstrapped. I listened to it on Audible.

I wholeheartedly agree with this. “Deserve” needs to be abolished alongside “resilient”. They’re toxic and bound up with the structural barriers and limitations of the social safety net and our treatment of people in poverty.

Why I’m Replacing Doomscrolling With Poetry by Alissa Quart I have, though, found a reprieve from my anxious inattention: poetry. More specifically, the poetry of survival—verse written in the shadow of political extremity. I have noticed this is true for others I know. buff.ly/HcJ3qrx

Poetry seems like a much healthier pastime than doomscrolling. Thought provoking essay from @alissaquart.bsky.social.

I write about how the poetry of survival is helping me live right now in particular #torydent and others, in Time Magazine time.com/7267756/repl... @economichardship.bsky.social @poetrydaily.bsky.social @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social @poetrysociety.bsky.social @kathapollitt.bsky.social

Funny story -- Horatio Alger was a pedo. He was kicked out of his church (quietly). And then wrote book after book about older men grooming younger men. Another fun fact I learned from @alissaquart.bsky.social's Bootstrapped.

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who's running for mayor, just released a comprehensive workers' rights platform, the first such platform in a city mayoral race in decades www.thenation.com/article/poli...

My favorite example of this is from @alissaquart.bsky.social’s Bootstrapped—how Thoreau lived “independently” at Walden Pond, his mother did his laundry.

Putnam also tends to ignore how men have historically relied on women to build community for them, and how we've left women stretched so thin (by telling them to compete with men at work without telling men to step up at home) that women can't be the community builders for their families anymore.

I loved doing this sensational event with @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social at the Brooklyn Public Library's Night of Ideas...#nightofideas we saw @mollycrabapple.bsky.social @bradlander.bsky.social and so many others.... @economichardship.bsky.social

“'Very little in our current media ecosystem addresses poor Americans,' says Victor Pickard...The main reason for its absence, he says, is that media owners are 'dedicated to making as much money as possible.'” @alissaquart.bsky.social in @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/analysis/ame...

Happy to be back on @marketplace.org discussing @economichardship.bsky.social and my piece in Time on "terra infirma" as well as @astra.bsky.social @jillgrinberglit.bsky.social www.marketplace.org/2025/02/17/e...

Billions of dollars are frozen. Economic forecasts are going to be factoring this in combined with the hundreds of thousands of federal employee layoffs very soon and it won’t be pretty.

Hey if you want some community consider attending this mind blowing yearly event Brooklyn Public Library's Night of Ideas on March 8th...doing an event with Hamilton Nolan and co. @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social @economichardship.bsky.social @publiclibrariesmag.bsky.social @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

“The fearmongering is all the more disproportionate, given how few people identify as transgender. They are a minuscule less than 1 percent of the American population. And they are 0.002 percent of college athletes.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

Elon Musk, David Sacks, Peter Thiel, and Roelof Botha (PayPal's former CFO) all have roots in apartheid South Africa. The name "Botha" should sound familiar to anyone familiar with SA and yes, Roelof is his grandson

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

HuffPost laid off so many excellent journalists today, including a national investigative reporter we hired literally *one month ago*

My dear friend @alissaquart.bsky.social wrote this really good essay: time.com/7210680/inse...

My latest thank you @kathapollitt.bsky.social in TIME and EHRP @economichardship.bsky.social @maiasz.bsky.social @maassp.bsky.social Quoting @astra.bsky.social

“Enemies are collages” @alissaquart.bsky.social writes in @currentaffairs.bsky.social

Things are pretty bleak right now. I've been finding meaning and connection wherever I can, even in conversations on BookTV! Like this one with Adam Chandler about his new book and the American Dream. No lie. @economichardship.bsky.social #americandream

Biden just canceled debt for 150k people. Hats off to all of the organizers, advocates and staffers who made this possible. But it's bittersweet because it shows cancellation is possible and there are so so so many more people people who are legally eligible for relief. thehill.com/homenews/edu...