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Rickey Gard Diamond

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Screwnomics is now on Ms. Magazine's Blog! Here I am after seeing it LIVE for the first time. Follow my new Ms. Magazine series Women Unscrewing Screwnomics for good news for a change!

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Here I am with a lovely group of attendees after our February 2, 2019 WILPF meet up at the Community Church of Boston.

Rickey Gard Diamond grew up and began writing in the Midwest, in the midst of big political changes and family differences. Pursuing a new life as a single mom, she moved her family to Vermont where she finished college and edited a statewide newspaper on issues of poverty. In 1985, she became founding editor of Vermont Woman, where she continues today as a contributing editor.

She taught writing and literature, feminist and media studies at Vermont College of Norwich University for over 20 years, while publishing articles and short fiction. In 1999, Calyx Books published her novel, Second Sight, which was republished by HarperCollins in 2000. Her short fiction, previously published in literary journals, was put out as a collection titled Whole Worlds Could Pass Away in 2017 by Rootstock Publishing.

She "followed the money" in her journalism, and saw systemic reasons for poverty. Teaching and writing about the uses of language in fiction and non-fiction, she became fascinated by economic "fictions," and presented at the NOW Economic Summit in Atlanta in early 2008, just months before the crash. In 2012, she won a Best Investigative Series from the National Newspaper Association for a five article series titled “An Economy of our Own.” The NNA cited her “atypical sources,” by which, she says, she supposes they meant women.

She was awarded a Hedgebrook fellowship in 2014 to create a book on economics that she envisioned would include cartoons and be readable and even enjoyable. “Economics does include a great deal of funny business,” she says about the subject, pointing out Andrea Dworkin’s famous statement: Money talks. But it talks in a male voice.

Diamond hopes her latest book Screwnomics, which deconstructs the economy’s long sexual history and Wall Street braggadocio, will help change that. Women are already making change

You’ll find many scheduled events on www.screwnomics.org, where you’ll also find a YouTube interview I did with Guy Rathbun, who is at KCBX in California. Screwnomics is fun, he says….which is exactly the point!

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Rickey Gard Diamond Like most women, I've been thinking about money forever, often coming up short. But economics seemed like Greek to me, so I set out to translate it. I…moreLike most women, I've been thinking about money forever, often coming up short. But economics seemed like Greek to me, so I set out to translate it. I began to notice that whatever school of thought, or economic field, women generally did not own it. The field was hyper-masculine. Eventually I wrote a series of articles that won a National Newspaper Association award for investigative reporting, citing my "atypical" sources, by which I suppose they meant women. I decided the objective tone of news reporting didn't really capture what I'd discovered. I wanted to make it more personal, more cheeky and fun. Cartoonist Peaco Todd and I taught at the same university, and when I asked if she'd work with me generating cartoons about women and money, she said yes! We've been laughing ever since. We have regular toons every Sunday on Screwnomic's Facebook site. Check them out!(less)

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Hi Rickey, you're not an economist...how did you learn what you write about in Screwnomics? All the definitions, history, and stories? Thanks!

Rickey Gard Diamond I learned the hard way, the way most of us do! I discovered the pay gap years after I suffered the shame of working full time, same as my ex-husband h…moreI learned the hard way, the way most of us do! I discovered the pay gap years after I suffered the shame of working full time, same as my ex-husband had, but NOT being able to make my budget work. I finally went to the welfare office. After that I joined the War on Poverty and learned and wrote about systems that disadvantaged women and people of color and the majority. I became curious about Wall Street's "creative writing" while teaching at Vermont College, and designed seminars connecting literature and economics, presenting at NOW's Economic Summit in 2008 on dangers of a male economic ecology. My critique of economics is language-based because language not only names things (and in economics, often wrongly or omitting women and nature). Language shapes how we think about things. Right now economics is waged as war. We need to wage life! (less)

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	Screwnomics: How the Economy Works Against Women and Real Ways to Make Lasting Change 3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Second Sight 3.35 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Heart Shots: Women Write About Hunting by Mary Zeiss Stange, Terry Tempest Williams (Contributor), Jennifer Bove (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whole Worlds Could Pass Away: Collected Stories 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vermont Odysseys by C.L. Gilberg (Editor), Rickey Gard Diamond (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1991	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Unsurprisingly, intellectuals leading the new paradigm approaches are women.

— Hazel Henderson, author of Creating Alternative Futures: The End of Economics and Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy

Note: Hazel Henderson was an important source for Screwnomics. She called the book: “Required reading for achieving full gender quality and human righ