September 5, 2025
Stacy Torres, Center for Ethnographic Research faculty affilate, has a new op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle about how she is responding to the economic uncertainty of Trump's trade war. Rather than excessively stocking up on goods, she has been tapping into her lifelong frugality, drawing on survival skills honed during her working-class childhood, and inviting others to join her in reflecting on finding more sustainable ways to respond to scarcity, such as repairing, reusing, and donating to build wealth not based on accumulation but community connections.