Premilla Nadasen

1 month ago | publicseminar.org | Tracy Rosenthal |Leonardo Vilchis |Premilla Nadasen |Thom Hartmann

Cover image of Abolish Rent by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis (Haymarket Books, 2024)Every first of the month, we hand over a share of our wages to meet our human need for housing. Our rents rise faster than our incomes, and inequality grows. Every first of the month, more tenants go without food, medication, and basic necessities to pay this tribute. More people take up residence with family, in cars, and in tents outdoors.

Mar 11, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Sigrid Nunez |Premilla Nadasen |Sue Donaldson |Sasha Kaoru Zamler-Carhart

Excerpted from The Vulnerables (Penguin Random House, 2023)“It was an uncertain spring.”I had read the book a long time ago, and, except for this sentence, I remembered almost nothing about it. I could not have told you about the people who appeared in the book or what happened to them. I could not have told you (until later, after I’d looked it up) that the book began in the year 1880. Not that it mattered.

Mar 6, 2024 | realchangenews.org | Premilla Nadasen

The pandemic strained American lives. It forced families to educate their own children, cook meals at home and care for their elderly family members. Businesses shuttered. People lost their jobs. Hospitals ran staff shortages. The pandemic brought forth how dependent we are on each other and how helpless we are without the support. Who gets cared for? Who provides care?

Nov 28, 2023 | publicseminar.org | Premilla Nadasen

Image Credit: Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen (Haymarket Books, 2023)​Radical care is not only a survival strategy—it goes beyond care as social service or a “good deed”—and is outside the dominant individualist and profit-making structures.

Apr 30, 2023 | haymarketbooks.org | Premilla Nadasen

An eye-opening reckoning with the care economy, from its roots in racial capitalism to its exponential growth as a new site of profit and extraction. Since the earliest days of the pandemic, care work has been thrust into the national spotlight. The notion of care seems simple enough. Care is about nurturing, feeding, nursing, assisting, and loving human beings.