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Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
True allyship lives in relationships, true solidarity requires giving up some comfort, material resources, and power—and sharing it with others.
from Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes
Tara McMullin added 5d ago
American society values work in terms of how much we produce, and how efficiently we can do it. It tells us that our output is our worth. Caregiving, conversely, is inefficient. But it pays dividends. If we were to think about work in terms of our humanity—making people feel dignified, valued, and whole—then caregiving is the most important work we
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It makes white women uncomfortable to think that they are no different from their hired help.
from Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes
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As Lorde writes, “Erotic is not only a question of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing.”4
from Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes
Tara McMullin added 5d ago
Raising children should not be as lonely, bankrupting, and exhausting as it is.
from Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes
Tara McMullin added 5d ago
Rather than viewing care work as characteristic of the noun “motherhood,” I now see it as the action of mothering, which includes anyone who is engaged in “the practice of creating, nurturing, affirming and supporting life.”
from Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes
Tara McMullin added 8d ago
American society values work in terms of how much we produce, and how efficiently we can do it. It tells us that our output is our worth. Caregiving, conversely, is inefficient. But it pays dividends. If we were to think about work in terms of our humanity—making people feel dignified, valued, and whole—then caregiving is the most important work we
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Tara McMullin added 8d ago
Reimagining our approach to mothering can birth its transformative potential. Day in and day out, this work can be our most consistent, embodied resistance to patriarchy, white supremacy, ableism, and the exploitation that underlies American capitalism.
from Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes
Tara McMullin added 8d ago
The economy could stand to bend to the will of decency and care. What if we built a system that lets us actually care for the people who care for us?
from Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes
Tara McMullin added 8d ago