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139. No More Grind: How to Finally Rest with Tricia Hersey

We Can Do Hard Things

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The History of Reproductive Justice

I'm so thankful that you brought up the historic lens and that your book focuses so much on it. I think most of Americans that are raised and indoctrinated in this culture like slavery, oh bad. Capitalism. Good. But when you think about the reality that there has only been two average American lifetime between right now and slavery. There is a very, very short line between enslaved women that the day they gave birth were forced to go out on the fields and America being the only wealthy nation where we don't have guaranteed paid parental leave. Like it is a direct line. Absolutely. We just need to make the connections. And I believe we can't make the connections for a lot of

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