Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 15/01/2025One week out to book publication 😵💫🫠🤩! Today’s research title is Catherine E. Rymph’s excellent history of American foster care, which as a bonus features truly creepy photos from foster care advertisements (14/20) 101
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 15/01/2025THE SUN WON’T COME OUT TOMORROW is in many ways a history of American attitudes toward poverty, and Katz was a crucial source for me. (I’ll forever be kicking myself that I didn’t know of Katz when I was a Penn student and missed taking a course with him.) (15/20) 121
Kristen Martin @kwistent.bsky.social · 17/01/2025I’m hugely indebted to the work of Dorothy Roberts in these two books, twenty years apart, that articulate why “family policing” is an accurate descriptor for our country’s child welfare system, and why it should be abolished (16/20) 121
