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It’s bad for your health

May 23, 2017June 9, 2011 by Shay

Being less than solidly middle class with access to good quality health care that you can actually afford is bad for your health. No really it is. So many of us take it for granted that we will live a nice long life, that we now see the 50’s and 60’s as young, funny thing …

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Categories class, Health, Random babble Tags bad health and working class, health disparities by class, working class folks 2 Comments

Food judgment is not cool

May 23, 2017June 7, 2011 by Shay

In keeping with this week’s theme of talking about class and poverty issues, today I want to touch upon the issue of food. I have written on the issue of food in the past, and here is a great tumblr post by a gal who really gets the issues of class. However despite writing on …

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Categories class, Food Tags classism, food and class, food judgment, food snobbery 5 Comments

Taking off my mask…nope I am not like you at all

May 23, 2017June 6, 2011 by Shay

I have a secret to share with you, of course the fact that I am putting it on this very public blog means it will no longer be a secret but that is okay. I go through most of my days feeling like a fraud, a fake, an impostor. Oh, on the surface I look …

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Categories class, Growing Up, Money, personal growth, Random babble Tags classism 9 Comments
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