Tradwives, Dependas, and the Politics of Degradation
The tradwife aesthetic valorizes submission and then withholds dignity from those who submit.
Steve Kennedy is the organizing and network director at the People’s Parity Project. He received his J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law, his M.S. from New York University, and his B.S. from the University of Massachusetts Boston.
The tradwife aesthetic valorizes submission and then withholds dignity from those who submit.
Today’s “parental rights” absolutism is actually a departure from the country’s constitutional history and tradition.
As with "massive resistance" to Brown v. Board, Republicans today argue for a legal landscape where rights exist on paper but cannot be enforced.
For advocates of "parental rights," family autonomy becomes both reward and weapon, extended to those who conform and withdrawn from those who do not.
For almost a century, the U.S. Supreme Court has been incredibly solicitous of executive power in foreign affairs.
A Court that does not share a common factual world with the people it governs is untethered from democratic reality.
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