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RECENT Media COVERAGE

Literary Hub – “Life on the Frontlines of America’s Caregiving Crisis”

Apple News in Conversation Podcast – “In sickness and in health”: what no one tells you about caring for a loved one” 

The Lancet – Caring for the Caregivers by Jess Libow

Mother Jones – The Political World of Caregiving by Julia Métraux 

USA Today – She loved her partner…by Madeline Mitchell

CSPAN BookTV – Recording of DC book event for In Sickness and in Health at Politics & Prose

WHYY The Pulse – 1 in 4 American Adults is a Caregiver. So why does it feel so lonely?

AARP – 27 of Winter’s Best New books

Portland Press Herald – In a new memoir, a sociologist confronts the shortcomings of caregiving by Lisa Hiton

New America – On Love, Caregiving, and the Politics of Abandonment

Main Street Vegan Podcast – Love, Caregiving, and the Crisis we don’t want to see

Stanford Social Innovation Review – What we owe to Caregivers by Kat McGowan

WNPR – Where We Live: Highlighting the caregiving crisis in CT and beyond – transcript available here

KALW’s Your Call – “In Sickness and In Health” reimagines the US caregiving crisis

Harvesting Happiness Podcast – In Sickness and In Health: Exploring America’s Caregiving Crisis

Love Doesn’t Pay the Bills Podcast – Love is not the same as Unlimited Skilled Labor 



More Media Coverage

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Profile in Fast Company

Zip ties, plywood, and PVC tubes: how disabled people and caregivers are hacking their homes. Disability at Home highlights the DIY solutions disabled people have designed to make their homes work better.

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Podcast: Design Lab with Bon Ku

Episode 86: Designing for Disability. We talk disability and design in our discussion that builds off of my essay, Care Tactics, which appeared in The Baffler.

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STAT News Profile: Living With Series

After ‘losing my life’ caring for a sick partner, a professor examines the U.S. caregiver crisis

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Podcast: Creating A New Healthcare, with Zeev Neurwirth

Episode 154: Who’s going to care for the 53 million caregivers in the US?

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Podcast: This is Hell! with Chuck Mertz

Episode 1504: Disability is Everyone’s Problem

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Podcast: Parsing Science, Becoming Deaf

To what extent could “coming out” be a useful analogy for the process of coming to identify as Deaf?

PAST EVENTS

        • Thursday, Feb 12th @ 7pm The Strand NYC Book Launch with Sian Pierre Regis
        • Wednesday, Feb 18th @ 6:30pm Head House Books Philadelphia, PA with Barry Jacobs
        • Thursday, Feb 19th @ 7pm Politics and Prose Washington, DC with Laurel Wittman
        • Tuesday, March 3rd @ 12pm New America Foundation – Online with Casey Gerald
        • Wednesday, March 4th @ 7:30pm Greenlight Bookstore Brooklyn with Brittney Cooper
        • Friday, March 13th @ 1pm Roosevelt Institute Book Club – Online
        • Tuesday, March 24th @ 2pm Disabilities Health Equity Research Network – Online
        • Saturday, March 28th @ 1pm Well Spouse Association – Online
        • Thursday, April 9th @ 5pm University of Buffalo
        • Tuesday, April 14th @7pm Mechanics Hall/Print Bookstore Portland, ME with Mira Ptacin
        • Thursday, April 16th @ 7pm SF Disability Cultural Center with Milton Reynolds – Online

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