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Can Motherhood Be a Mode of Rebellion?
I want to drill down on one aspect of the intro, too, because I think it’s essential: how has care “curdled,” for lack of a better word, in our minds? And what have been the implications of that degradation?
Definitely curdled. When I say the word “care” I think it often brings to mind the smell of diapers or that unpleasant combo of urine and disi... See more
Definitely curdled. When I say the word “care” I think it often brings to mind the smell of diapers or that unpleasant combo of urine and disi... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • "I Went Into Motherhood Determined Not to Lose Myself in It."
Our culture is really doing a ten out of ten job in caring in the worst possible ways. There is no infrastructure to support parents of caregivers, so care makes you poor and exhausts you. (Solution: Pay caregivers! Universal and affordable childcare and eldercare!) Parenting has become more instrumental than it used to be: kids are a project, anot... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • "I Went Into Motherhood Determined Not to Lose Myself in It."
For so many people, this lack of options — this coercion to care — breeds intense resentment of a role that, when chosen of one’s own volition, might feel incredibly satisfying.
Anne Helen Petersen • Forced to Care
Keely Adler added
I don’t believe care work has to wreck us. This labor can be shared, social, collective—and transformative.
Angela Garbes • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
I don’t believe care work has to wreck us. This labor can be shared, social, collective—and transformative.
Angela Garbes • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver? We might be forced to conclude that the real business of human life is not contributing toward something called “the e... See more
David Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber
Tara McMullin added
What good does being patient, and kind, do? Don’t we need to recenter the conversation about motherhood, take a wrecking ball to the old society and build a new one that values child-rearing, that supports mothers and gives them the time to make this transition, that doesn’t do away with abortion rights, that doesn’t pay an average of a measly $500
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