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🏛️🧬 Researchers found that the Durotriges tribe of ancient #Dorset practiced a social system called matrilocality.

Their analysis of 50 ancient genomes shows that women stayed within their home communities while men moved to join their wives' families. The discovery supports historical accounts of powerful British queens and implies that land and status were inherited through maternal lines.

👉 https://www.historyhit.com/were-iron-age-women-the-true-rulers-of-britain/

💁🏻‍♀️✨ BBC Knowledge Explainer: DNA https://seethis.tv/post/bbc-knowledge-explainer-dna

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Great article about the kinds of mental load involved, for women, in domestic labour.

Sadly, this is old news.

Twenty years ago I completed a PhD thesis that unpacked & examined these aspects of domestic life.

By interviewing parents & kids separately, asking the same open ended questions - ‘what gets done, who does what, is it fair, & how do you think it should be?’, which I ran through 3 times, first for domestic tasks, then for the work of identifying what needs to be done & making sure it happens, then for noticing how everyone is feeling & keeping every happy in the process - then taking the family as my unit of analysis, I showed that men & kids were unaware of much of the physical & almost all of the intangible work women did in their homes. Boys & men thought everything was fine. Girls did not want to assume, as adults, the domestic servant role they saw their mothers placed in but had no strategies to achieve this beyond ‘I’ll just tell them’.

There was a hierarchy of work in these families in which men’s work & leisure time had highest priority, then kids’ schooling & leisure, then domestic work of all kinds. Womens paid work & leisure was lowest priority of all.

The families that lived without conflict were those in which the hierarchy of work was not disputed. Where women sought to disrupt the hierarchy there was conflict - which became another part of the domestic load she was expected to manage.

My findings showed that contrary to popular narratives of ‘progress’, this dynamic was not likely to change until men as well as women recognise the dynamic & choose to shift it.

This argument was not popular.

Twenty years later, here we are.

I wish I had been wrong.

#DomesticLabour #EmotionWork #MentalLoad #sociology #research #women #mothers

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-02/the-four-stages-of-the-mental-load-explained/106348264?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/just-code-just-published

Just Code, just published!!! Open Access of full book is now freely available, see link above. OA made possible with an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to CBI! Am so honored to partner w Con & work alongside 19 stellar, fellow interdisciplinary authors on this book! Full ToC in replies!

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Actionable items: pick one or two and work on offices and events within walking and commuting distance.

When we grow food at home and in neighborhoods, we peel the Profiteers' fingers off our necks.

If we remove prison slavery and replace it with gentle custody, we save ourselves and spite slavers.

If we make hospitable policy for newcomers, we spite racists.

If we fix zoning we spite landlords and fix the invented housing crisis.

If we write or call or visit to our elected reps every day, they won't have time to cheat with lobbiests.

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Sociology/communications/history of the internet folks:

I'm looking for articles on millennials and the early social web, focusing on how they (we) adapted to being the first native web generation to use it for that purpose, and how it changed how society approaches communication in general.

I haven't had much luck turning anything up.

#sociology #communications #history #research

Just throwing it out there, but if you ever need help finding resources (books, videos, articles, etc) to help you study social theory, witchcraft, occultism, or folklore (I have diverse interests lol), please feel free to reach out! Depending on how familiar I am with the topic and the source, I might even be able to help answer some questions, if you have them, too! I'm always happy to help folks find what they need to learn!

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