New
Top
Community
homeculture is becoming the pocket observatory
Collecting light from the seen and unseen.
My work in Harper's Bazaar
What the Conversation Around the "Great Resignation" Leaves Out
Every Day I Worry My Kids Will Be Killed at School
“Will I be okay?” my children ask me as the mass shootings in America continue. None of us like my answer.
My Mother Risked It All on the Bean Baby Boom
She was a Mormon homemaker who just wanted to take part in the market economy. Then it all came crashing down.
Motherhood in America Is a Multilevel Marketing Scheme
Stay-at-home moms can’t hold this pyramid up much longer
People Said I Was ‘Special.’ Really, I Just Had ADHD.
The diagnosis that came decades later than it should have
Journalism Comes For Teenage Trauma and Triumph on TikTok
Internet culture has a kid consent problem
There Is No Paycheck for Your Life’s Work
A pandemic reminds us that work-life balance was always out of reach
My High School Was Full of Boys Like Alex Jones
On fact, fiction, and the origin stories we claim as our own
Suffer the Little Children
Mothers have always crossed boundaries to save their kids
What Got Left Out of LulaRich
Culture Study's Anne Helen Petersen interviews me about women, home, money, and care.
The Edenic Allure of Ballerinafarm
It’s no wonder that many LDS women have taken to Momfluencing and Homefluencing (and now Farmfluencing) like fish who finally found water.
homeculture is becoming the pocket observatory
homeculture.substack.com
homeculture is becoming the pocket observatory
Collecting light from the seen and unseen.
“I just love Meg's brain so much!”
Anne Helen Petersen, Culture Study
“Meg has this incredible ability to translate her own learning/processing/research about the intersection of race/class/gender and the home into some jaw-dropping, make-you-mad-for-not-having-written-it prose. ”
Garrett Bucks, The White Pages
“Meg's insights into the culture of home/house work have helped me rethink so-called "universal truths" I've learned growing up.”
Ben Millett, Notes from Ben Millett
By registering you agree to Substack's Terms of Service, our Privacy Policy, and our Information Collection Notice