#Anne Helen Petersen

[exhaled-spirals]

« It’s very lovely that Dálen [inventor of the AGA stove] decided to find a way to relieve housewives and housekeepers from the burden of fire keeping. Yet when men see women performing the intense labor of care work, they often seem to think they’re seeing a problem that needs solving. The problem is “care work is labor intensive,” and their solution is often, “Here is an invention that will make it more efficient for women to do care work.” The inventions are nice, but care work is always labor intensive and rarely efficient, even with a radiant heat stove. You know what would help women more than any invention? A critical mass of men willing to do care work. »

— Anne Helen Petersen, in her Culture Study substack

[noodledesk]

Friendship means sometimes doing things that are tedious, or gross, or not what you’d like to spend your Sunday afternoon doing, because we all, at some point, need help with things that are tedious, and gross, and that we ourselves would rather not spend a Sunday afternoon doing. There are also very fun ways that we care for each other. But it's a real weave. The good and the bad, the joyful and the slog, the visible and invisible — these are the ways we care for each other. This is how we re-learn how to place just as much value in the well-being of the whole as we place on the well-being of the individual. This is how we fall asleep less afraid and wake up more rested. Not because we did everything perfectly, or have the right degrees, or checked the right boxes. Just because we're here — with and for each other. 

Anne Helen Petersen, How to Show Up For Your Friends Without Kids — and How to Show Up For Kids and Their Parents

[archivlibrarianist]

Anne Helen Petersen breaks down why librarians are not okay. She's talking to academic librarians here, but a lot of problems she describes in her third point-- continued cuts to necessary services-- apply to public libraries, as well.

"First: You work passion jobs, and passion jobs are prime for exploitation... The second thing I want to acknowledge: you’re working a passion job that is feminized and, by extension, devalued....

The third thing that makes your jobs hard? You’re working for higher ed...

The fourth thing that’s making your job really, really hard? You just worked through a pandemic, and an ongoing reckoning with systemic racism, and a contested election, and an insurrection, and several climate catastrophes. Plus, we are still in a pandemic. Some of you were asked to be present in situations that felt unsafe every day. Some of you had to deal with people who were butts about masks. Some of you got sick or are still sick, many of you have spent the last twenty-four months in various cycles of fear-based adrenaline pushes through the week followed by debilitating crashes..."

[sheafrotherdon]

Getting organized means more than donations or social media posts or a single demonstration, and it will be especially meaningful in a month when this is likely to have slipped from the front page.  Anne Helen Petersen gathers some important advice on what we need to do, and a space to find organizational resources with others.

[skiagrafia]

It’s all very paradoxical: that the ability to constantly communicate has made us bad communicators, that instant access to all forms of entertainment would leave us with so few touchstones, that surveilling kids doesn’t necessarily make them safer, that the absence of limitations also often means the absence of creativity — and that the particular form of abundance we’ve fetishized can feel so sad, so unspeakably sterile.

—Anne Helen Petersen, The Sterile World of Infinite Choice

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

By Anne Helen Petersen.

Design by Ben Denzer.

[dk-thrive]

But the body is bad at pretending. It keeps the damn score.

We compartmentalized the stress and ongoing trauma, flattening it into something survivable, but we nonetheless ate it for breakfast, and lunch, and dinner. We swam in that stress. We slept in it. We swallowed it in gulps. We lived through it, and we told ourselves stories of resilience, because what other choice did we have.

But the body is bad at pretending. It keeps the damn score.

— Anne Helen Petersen, from “That's a Stress Response. All the ways your body is (still) reactions to the pandemic.” (Culture Study, June 1, 2022)

[thoughtportal]

How did the information superhighway get so gridlocked? Guest Anne Helen Petersen tells Sarah the story of how email took over the world and our working lives, and what it would mean for us to get a little of our lost time back. Plus, a Kurt Loder cameo. Here’s where to find Anne:

Twitter

Substack

[noodledesk]

i love anne helen petersen's writing about caring for yourself and others, and there is a SUPER practical and tangible form here you can customize and send to your friends to look after them and also be looked after... i think it's such a great idea

[da5vi]

Não Aguento Mais Não Aguentar Mais, de Anne Helen Petersen

Crescer na geração millennial significa ter ouvido por anos um monte de receita pronta que garantiria uma certa estabilidade financeira quando a gente chegasse aos vinte e poucos anos. Ao invés disso, encaramos uma economia pós crise que não criou nenhuma coisa útil para nos ajudar a ter uma vida digna com empregos e nos venderam ainda mais um monte de abobrinhas que transformou nossa geração em um poço sem fundo de depressão e burnout.

O novo lançamento da editora Harper Collins não é um livro de auto-ajuda, mas uma coleção importante de relatos e fatos (baseados na economia dos Estados Unidos, vale ressaltar) que desmistificam falácias e nos ajudam a entender que o problema de nossa percepção negativa de sucesso não é a gente, mas sim o sistema no qual estamos inseridos.

Para mim enquanto brasileiro, além de abrir os olhos para algumas dinâmicas trabalhistas, também funcionou para ver de onde saiu tanta ideia errada que alguns políticos vendem como a solução para a economia de nosso país -- e também deu para entender melhor o motivo pelo qual elas não são ideais.

É impressionante como a partir de paralelos como esse a gente tem uma dimensão da influência da cultura americana sobre nossa vida. É algo que claramente vai muito além da música e do cinema, e que precisa ser questionado. Em diversas ocasiões!

Não Aguento Mais Não Aguentar Mais é um livro essencial para quem está tendo crises por se achar um fracasso e para quem cultiva (mesmo sem perceber) uma relação não muito saudável entre a vida pessoal e o trabalho.

[nyomkitten]

this is sO SMART why didn't i think of this

(from AHP's newsletter Culture Study, interview with Melody Rowell titled "How an Idea Becomes a Podcast")

also this

made me nod in half-recognition but also made me pause in that pRobably i'm not working that hard if i'm not overwhelmed every day

[dk-thrive]

It’s one of those pieces that flows out of you when you sit down to right, and you realize just how much your brain has been working on it in the background — for days, for weeks, for years.

Anne Helen Petersen, from “A Little Bit of Patience” (Culture Study via annehelen.substack.com, August 28, 2022)