Mom Life Versus The Everyday Apocalypse

Does life as a mother feel like an apocalypse waiting to happen? Yes? Then welcome to the club of moms who are going crazy one fruit snack at a time. Whitmer shares hilarious insights and stories about parenting. #1 Amazon Bestseller

Mining popular media, Dark redefines the term apocalypse as a more honest, watchful way of being in the world and higlights how the imagination can expose our moral condition.

This honest reflection on motherhood shares a wholehearted reality check for new mothers looking to normalize the reality of parenthood amidst the funhouse mirrors of social media. Linda Fruits brings her signature combination of hilarity and empathy to the page in The Mom Life, emphasizing that you're not a bad mother for fondly remembering a time in your life before children, and that sometimes it's ok to feed your toddler chicken nuggets three days in a row. Equal parts sass and inclusiveness, The Mom Life explores the highs and lows of new motherhood, tackling taboo subjects like losing interest in your partner, not immediately loving your baby, and imposter syndrome. Beautifully packaged with pages designed in two colors by the author herself, this title will be a must-have for every new mother trying to maneuver the realities of daily life with small children. The Mom Life creates a safe space and a vital contrast to the deluge of information and picture-perfect parenthood accounts popping up across social media. Full of powerful and empowering advice for women looking to set boundaries and take care of themselves, The Mom Life is an essential gift for every new mother trying to understand her new normal.

In Tropical Apocalypse, Martin Munro argues that since the earliest days of European colonization, Caribbean—and especially Haitian—history has been shaped by apocalyptic events so that the region has, in effect, been living for centuries in an end time without end. By engaging with the contemporary apocalyptic turn in Caribbean studies and lived reality, he not only provides important historical contextualization for a general understanding of apocalypse in the region but also offers an account of the state of Haitian society and culture in the decades before the 2010 earthquake. Inherently interdisciplinary, his work ranges widely through Caribbean and Haitian thought, historiography, political discourse, literature, film, religion, and ecocriticism in its exploration of whether culture in these various forms can shape the future of a country. The author begins by situating the question of the Caribbean apocalypse in relation to broader, global narratives of the apocalyptic present, notably Slavoj i ek's Living in the End Times. Tracing the evolution of apocalyptic thought in Caribbean literature from Negritude up to the present, he notes the changes from the early work of Aimé Césaire; through an anti-apocalyptic period in which writers such as Frantz Fanon, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Édouard Glissant, and Michael Dash have placed more emphasis on lived experience and the interrelatedness of cultures and societies; to a contemporary stage in which versions of the apocalyptic reappear in the work of David Scott and Mark Anderson.

I guess I always felt even if the world came to an end, McDonald's still would be open. High school sophomore Miranda's disbelief turns to fear in a split second when an asteroid knocks the moon closer to Earth, like "one marble hits another." The result is catastrophic. How can her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis are wiping out the coasts, earthquakes are rocking the continents, and volcanic ash is blocking out the sun? As August turns dark and wintery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove. Told in a year's worth of journal entries, this heart-pounding story chronicles Miranda's struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar world. An extraordinary series debut Susan Beth Pfeffer has written several companion novels to Life As We Knew It, including The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon.

Short, funny, and honestlike your kids. A breath of fresh air in the parenting world, "14 Hours Til Bedtime" illuminates the pressure cooker lives of Americas young mothers. With comedic focus on the joys and the blunders of raising a family, Jen Singer explores what it really takes to be a stay-at-home mom: Patiencestaminaand a genuine appreciation for greeting cards made out of Froot Loops. "14 Hours Til Bedtime" is for any mother who has managed to do the Hokey-Pokey with a toddler while nursing the baby at the same time. Author Jen Singer is the sure-and-steady voice for every on-the-go mom who dreams of stringing together ten minutes so she can shave both legs on the same day.Ralph Schoenstein, author of My Kid's an Honor Student. Your Kid's a Loser, "Somewhere Erma Bombeck is smiling."Lisa Earle McCleod, author of Forget Perfect, "14 hours 'Til Bedtime" is like a good laugh with a girlfriend."Ken Swarner, author of Whose Kids Are These Anyway?, "Jen Singer has hit parenting on the nail...it's hectic, loud and mind numbing yet worth its weight in gold."From the PublisherTruly laugh-out-loud funny, Jen Singer is the voice of today's over-worked moms! Recently she was quoted in "The Boston Herald" October 1, 2004: "Americans love to see privileged people fall, and (now) its housewives turn," said Jen Singer, author of 14 Hours 'Til Bedtime: A Stay-at-Home Moms Life in 27 Funny Little Stories and creator of MommaSaid.net. "For the past few years, staying home with your kids has been seen as a privilege," she said. "Watching Desperate Housewives lets working women feel relieved that being a housewife isn't what society has held it up to be. And at-home moms want to know that other housewives can be as unhappy or more so than they feel sometimes."Introduction In my mothers day, being a stay-at-home mom was practically mandatory. Nowadays though, with so many moms working to make ends meet, staying home with the kids is seen as a privilege. And the privileged shouldnt complain. Then again, the privileged normally dont spend their days scraping peanut butter off the telephone or rescuing the cat from yet another tea party. So, an entire generation of stay-at-home moms, who grew up when women were suddenly expected to "bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan," seems to downplay their (unpaid) jobs. Yet they work 14-plus hour days, putting aside their own interests - such as conversing with adults in full sentences - with little recognition. Or sleep. In "14 Hours Til Bedtime: A Stay-at-Home Moms Life in 27 Funny, Little Stories", I say what other at-home moms have been afraid to say: its really, really hard to devote all your time to little people who show their appreciation by hanging from your belt loops, whining, while you make macaroni and cheese shaped like SpongeBob SquarePants. Again.Between each story are "Just a Minute!" breaks - quick, little funnies you can read while stirring the mac n cheese. Even the essays are brief, because I know you have only about 750 words to read before someone figures out youre hiding in the bathroom with a book. So go ahead. Read a little bit and enjoy. Because you deserve it, Mom! - Jen Singer, May 2004About the AuthorAuthor Jen Singer is the stay-at-home mother of two small boys. When they're sleeping or tearing down someone else's house, Singer writes about them, secure in the knowledge that they can't read too well yet. Her humor has appeared in American Baby, Family Circle, The New York Times, Nick Jr., Parenting, Parents, and Woman's Day. Before she began taking phone messages in chalk on the driveway, she wrote about Generation X in Entrepreneur, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, Home Office Computing, The Los Angeles Times, and The Miami Herald. She is the creator of the "Housewife" Awards" and the holiday, "Please Take My Children to Work Day", and the founder of MommaSaid.net.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corners of global capitalism." --Jenny Odell, author of How to Do Nothing From FSGO x Logic: stories about rural China, food, and tech that reveal new truths about the globalized world In Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and intolerant. Instead, they find that rural China has not only adapted to rapid globalization but has actually innovated the technology we all use today. From pork farmers using AI to produce the perfect pig, to disruptive luxury counterfeits and the political intersections of e-commerce villages, Wang unravels the ties between globalization, technology, agriculture, and commerce in unprecedented fashion. Accompanied by humorous “Sinofuturist” recipes that frame meals as they transform under new technology, Blockchain Chicken Farm is an original and probing look into innovation, connectivity, and collaboration in the digitized rural world. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today.

An accessible and engaging introduction to the critical study of popular culture, which provides students with the tools they need to make sense of the popular culture that inundates their everyday lives. This textbook centers on media ecology and equipment for living to introduce students to important theories and debates in the field. Each chapter engages an important facet of popular culture, ranging from the business of popular culture to communities, stories, and identities, to the simulation and sensation of pop culture. The text explains key terms and features contemporary case studies throughout, examining aspects such as memes and trends on social media, cancel culture, celebrities as influencers, gamification, "meta" pop culture, and personalized on-demand music. The book enables students to understand the complexity of power and influence, providing a better understanding of the ways pop culture is embedded in a wide range of everyday activities. Students are encouraged to reflect on how they consume and produce popular culture and understand how that shapes their sense of self and connections to others. Essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, popular culture, and other related subjects.