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Frida Berrigan

Frida Berrigan is the author of It Runs In The Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing into Rebellious Motherhood. She is a TomDispatch regular and writes the Little Insurrections column for WagingNonviolence.Org. She has three children and lives in New London, Connecticut, where she is a gardener and community organizer.

How to Survive Us

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow on a Broiling Planet

By Frida Berrigan On November 6, 2022On November 9, 2022

This Is My Song

What I Can Still Love about My Embattled Country (and World)

By Frida Berrigan On July 14, 2022On July 14, 2022

A School System Goes to Hell and Back Again

A Pandemic Year of Hope, Trauma, and Tragedy, Up Close and Personal

By Frida Berrigan On April 28, 2022On April 28, 2022

A Christmas Confession

I’m Taking an Eco-Holiday From It All (and So Are My Kids)

By Frida Berrigan On December 19, 2021On December 19, 2021

Meatball Subs, Not Nuclear Subs

Or How to Deliver 16,128 Hiroshimas

By Frida Berrigan On June 24, 2021On June 24, 2021

The Long Haul

Or Living Through Pandemic-Plus

By Frida Berrigan On October 6, 2020On May 15, 2021

Sometimes We Can Make Our Own Hope 

Running for Office in the Age of Donald Trump and Climate Change 

By Frida Berrigan On January 28, 2020On January 28, 2020

Trumping the Future

Which Would Mean No Future for My Three Kids

By Frida Berrigan On October 3, 2019On October 3, 2019

Parenting the Climate-Change Generation

Or Will They Parent Us?

By Frida Berrigan On March 14, 2019On March 14, 2019

A Child at World’s End

A Mother Thinks About the Inheritance of Children

By Frida Berrigan On October 2, 2018On May 15, 2021

Gunning Down the Easter Bunny

The Weaponization of Everyday Life

By Frida Berrigan On April 15, 2018On May 15, 2021

“Do Kids Die, Mom?”

Facing the Future With Trepidation in the Age of Trump

By Frida Berrigan On January 7, 2018On May 15, 2021

Growing My Way Out of Dystopia

Can We Stop Feeling Quite So Helpless and Hopeless in a World on the Skids?

By Frida Berrigan On July 11, 2017On May 15, 2021

Loving America and Resisting Trump

The New Patriotism

By Frida Berrigan On February 16, 2017On May 15, 2021

“Pow, Pow, Yous Are Dead!”

Children, Toy Guns, and the Real Thing

By Frida Berrigan On July 31, 2016On May 15, 2021

Make Trump Great Again!

Taking The Donald to Toddler Town

By Frida Berrigan On April 12, 2016On April 12, 2016

Kids’ Questions on a Lockdown Planet

Thinking the Parentally Unthinkable 

By Frida Berrigan On December 22, 2015On May 15, 2021

Parenting on the Brink

Wrestling With Fears Too Big to Name

By Frida Berrigan On October 6, 2015On May 15, 2021

Uncle Pentagon

Growing Up in the Shadow of the American War State

By Frida Berrigan On March 10, 2015On May 15, 2021

Frida Berrigan, Pimping Weapons to the World

By Frida Berrigan On February 16, 2010On May 15, 2021

For the Sixty-Fourth Time: No More Nuclear War

Reflections on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Our World

By Frida Berrigan On August 3, 2009On July 12, 2021

Frida Berrigan, Downloading Disaster

By Frida Berrigan On June 9, 2009On November 10, 2021

Frida Berrigan, How Shovel-Ready Is the Pentagon?

By Frida Berrigan On March 12, 2009On May 15, 2021

Frida Berrigan, Who Rules the Pentagon?

By Frida Berrigan On November 25, 2008On February 17, 2021

Frida Berrigan, The Pentagon Legacy of the MBA President

By Frida Berrigan On September 14, 2008On July 12, 2021

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