#care-work — Public Fediverse posts

Mortals' Day (US) soon!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0upXUvA5m8
Meowths' Ur Day!!

#mother #parent #parenting #mothers #MothersDay #mom #ma #mama #chick #woman #femme #lady #girl #unpaidLabor #unpaid #UnpaidWork #care #CareWork #CareLabor #housework #home #social #TradWife #Iguess #idfk

'Lewis takes up a debate with several Black feminists who have, at various times, questioned the idea of family abolition, whose central argument has been that, very often, Black families have been sites of resistance against racism. Similarly, we could point to many experiences of class struggle in which sectors of working families have played a key role against the attacks of capital: supporting strikes, establishing relations of solidarity between factories and neighborhoods, staging rent strikes, maintaining soup kitchens, creating movements in defense of public services, and many other forms of resistance. The tradition of “women’s commissions” in strikes, for example, has allowed the working class to articulate fighting forces far beyond the workplace.

'To this criticism Lewis responds that, even so, we should not cease working for the abolition of the family, since we would not need its “protective shield” if we managed to build a society without racism. The argument contains a grain of truth, but it stops halfway. It fails to contemplate the role that the family relations within sectors of the working class and oppressed can play in moments of heightened class struggle. On another level, it doesn’t account for the fact that capitalism, while it needs such a “social cell” for its own reproduction, constantly undermines working families’ very conditions of existence. Marx and Engels remarked on this in the mid-19th century, pointing to the length of the working day, the lack of decent housing, and the general precariousness of working class life.'

Josefina L. Martínez : https://www.leftvoice.org/love-and-care-beyond-capitalism/

#property #gender #subordination #dependence #family #debates #debate #abolition #antiCapitalism #Fourier #Lewis #sociology #anthropology #communities #feminism #feminisms #chores #care #queer #rainbowMafia #historyOfIdeas #Marxism #relationships #abolitionism #culturalism #radicalFeminism #materialism #classes #revolution #domesticWork #classStruggle #careWork #historyOfFeminism

Decent Societies Must Recognize the Value of Care Work

“A crass, self-serving elite wants us to define economic success by the growth of stock market indices and cryptocurrency. They couldn’t care less about our health or the long-run sustainability of our national prosperity.”

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/making-care-work-book

#care #CareWork #health #wellbeing

A crisis of social reproduction

“We are living in a world that is the most cognitively demanding world that there has ever been...So it is unsurprising that people feel that they are overwhelmed. They can’t focus. They can’t concentrate because that is the world we live in.”
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-21/women-adhd-medication-overtake-men-australia-data-four-corners/106583242
#zeitgeist #CareWork #CrisisOfCare #women #gender #ReproductiveLabour #DoubleBurden #CareDeficit #austerity #overwhelmedness #speed #ClimateCrisis #lifeworld #pharmaceuticals #medication #SocialTransition

Isyerofa Ninnfuto explores the struggles of migrant workers in the UK, highlighting how nurseries under capitalism are a contradictory space in which the love and care of children coexists with the subordination of workers to management.

https://interregnum.ghost.io/early-years-unequal-fears-a-nursery-workers-suspension-story/

#migrantworkers #care #carework #migrants #migrant #nursery #capitalism #workers #workersrights #work #earlyyearseducation #children #uk

Wie sieht #Fürsorge aus, wenn sie niemand sieht? In der #Ukraine übernehmen Männer schon lang #CareWork. Doch ihre Arbeit bleibt unsichtbar, weil Fürsorge als klassische „Frauensache“ gilt. Ilona Grabmaier zeigt: Es ist Zeit, unser Bild von Fürsorge zu überdenken. #Gender

https://grossvater.hypotheses.org/3455

Well, this week has so far involved a seizure from Jarrah (he missed a dose of his medication, which doesn't bode well for reducing it over the next month, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it), a night of digestive issues for me, and a call from Dad late this afternoon, who thankfully didn't need the hospital this time (probably just dehydrated and low blood sugar; I went over and made him a cuppa and a sandwich).

It's Tuesday. Wtf. I'm putting in an order for less drama for the rest of the week please.

However! Good things are happening all the same:

+ Kid4 has been playing Diablo 2 and loving it and keeps asking me stuff and last night we had a chat about some things (waypoints and identifying items) and he said, 'It's so great to be finally playing a game that I can talk to you about!' (because I play few games, but Diablo 2 is one of my very faves)

+ we have a hot day forecast tomorrow but after that, hopefully it'll be into cooler weather

+ the kitchen stayed clean until the weekend! I say 'stayed clean' – I mean, I kept it clean. Obviously it's a bit messy now given the last couple of days but I feel like it's not overwhelming. Also, the fam is helping with this – yay for a virtuous circle

+ fit in a good trumpet practice before Dad called. I missed so many days last week and I really noticed the difference in my lesson

+ I ordered a record for my birthday soon and it arrived and I'm so delighted 🥰

#GoodThings #busy #family #CareWork #trumpet #housework #music #gaming #jarrah

In June, the conference “Knowing and Doing Care” will bring together different approaches and ways of understanding and examining care practices in the past and present, in the East and West. A special focus will be placed on transcultural interconnections between the past and present, between East and West. If you are interested in the topic, you can submit your own contributions until March 17. All information: https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-roots/details/news/konferenz-knowing-and-doing-care-comparing-care-roots-of-care

#CallForPapers #conference #Care #CareWork #CarePractices #PastAndPresent

Wir schreiben viel über das Gehen. Aber selten darüber, dass wir manchmal nicht gehen und darüber, dass der Körper auch eine Geschichte trägt: Entzündung, Angst, Schmerz, Überforderung. Dass Autonomie auch heißt, nicht verfügbar sein zu dürfen.

Das Draußen ist längst kein neutraler Raum mehr. Erwartungen: an Selbstwirksamkeit, an Transformation. Wer geht, arbeitet an sich. Wer nicht geht, bleibt zurück.

Das Ferale ist nicht immer der Trail, sondern auch die Weigerung, den eigenen Körper verfügbar zu machen.

https://ferals.eu/wenn-die-berge-nicht-rufen

#Hiking #Wandern #Outdoor #MYOG #FeralePraxis #Körper #SpoonieHiking #RestIsResistance #CareWork #PerformanceCulture #Zugang

This account, this corner of the fediverse, has become one of the places I let those questions be noisy in public. What does healing mean when the conditions that harmed you are not gone, only rearranged into more respectable shapes? What actually happens inside a counselling relationship when disability or neurodivergence is present but unnamed, or misnamed, or politely ignored? How do we begin to notice the ways power and unspoken norms travel through even the most well-intentioned helping professions? How do we hold culture as something we are constantly creating and being created by, something we may need to grieve and interrogate and occasionally celebrate, often all at once, sometimes in the space of a single conversation?

I keep circling back to the interior labour of this work. The slow, repetitive practice of building emotional regulation when your nervous system's default setting is red alert. The awkwardness of learning self-compassion when sharp self-criticism has been your most reliable survival tool. The moments that feel like failure because you find yourself reacting in an old way, when in reality this is precisely how recovery moves, looping back on itself, revisiting old ground with slightly different eyes. The way trauma and joy can sit shoulder to shoulder in the same hour, the same therapy session, the same breath, and how unnerving and holy that can feel.

Rauch and Ansari suggest that silence can be deliberate and strategic, a form of self-regulation rather than withdrawal, a boundary rather than an absence. I think about this in relation to the freeze response, to the moments in my own history when going quiet was not giving up but holding on. The body stills because there are no safe words yet. Sometimes the silence is the story. And learning to hear it as such, to receive it without rushing to fill or fix it, is one of the things I am still practising, in music and in therapy and in the ordinary, unglamorous dailiness of trying to stay present in a life that sometimes arrives all at once.

I am not arriving anywhere with a finished theory of how any of this is supposed to work. I am coming, again and again, with fragments and questions and a stubborn intention to tell the truth as I understand it in the moment I am writing. That truth is often partial, often shifting. My understanding of myself, of trauma, of disability, of care, keeps moving, and I want it to. I would rather be inconsistent and alive to new information than seamless and rigidly wrong.

If you are still reading, you are already participating in something I care about. A space that treats complexity as ordinary rather than excessive. Where being too much is not an accusation but raw material. Where intense feeling and rigorous thought are both welcome at the same table. Where healing is not a linear journey toward a fixed destination but something more like learning to live inside unresolved chords without pretending they have resolved. Where music is both metaphor and method, both a way of speaking about change and a way of practising it in the body.

True silence does not exist. What we call silence is simply what we have not yet learned to hear. The fullness of life in quieter tones. The heartbeat of thought. The whispered rhythm of resilience. The steady murmur of healing is underway. And when we learn to tune into the music between the notes and into the truth held in breath, we do more than survive. We begin to sing again. This time, in a voice that is entirely our own.

I am not here to introduce myself so much as to keep turning up alongside you. To keep writing from the middle of things, not only from the rare polished moments that look good in hindsight. To keep noticing the small, ordinary, unglamorous ways humans find their way back to themselves, even inside systems that were never set up with them in mind. If any of these threads brush against something in your own story, then you are part of the imagined audience I write towards. And maybe, in a slow, imperfect, occasionally dissonant way, part of the choir that is still learning how to hear itself.

#AuDHD #Neurodivergent #Blind #Deafblind #Disabled #DisabilityJustice #MadStudies #Psychology #Counselling #Therapy #Trauma #TraumaRecovery #Neurodiversity #MentalHealth #ChronicStress #Healing #WindowOfTolerance #LivedExperience #CareWork #Culture #Power #Normality #Access #Inclusion #Ableism #Music #ClassicalMusic #ChoralMusic #Choir #Singing #Writing #PersonalEssay #Silence #LongPost #Fediversea (2/2)

It talked about the changing relationship you'll have with your parent/s and that's definitely something I struggle with, but also trying not to borrow the worry about my own older age. The exhaustion I sometimes feel while juggling work and children and being a supportive partner and also caring or advocating for my parents... I don't want my kids to feel that crushing overwhelm. I want to be as healthy and active as I can for myself in older age but also for their sakes.

And I fully admit that I'm looking at this from the perspective of who I'm currently parenting – when this happens* they'll be adults and have their own lives and responsibilities and decisions to make, not teens where they still need me to a greater or lesser degree.

Anyway, the point is that right now, my eighties looks scary but I'm doing what I can to make them less so, while at the same time recognising that if I do get there, it's a privilege

*assuming things go to plan with my health as I age, which they obviously may not

#parenting #caring #CareWork #ageing

Posh liberal journalist Marina Hyde apparently thinks there is something degrading in wiping another persons backside. There isn't. It's an unpleasant job that's all. As Zack Polanski implied, the people who do this important work should be respected and thanked.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/09/zack-polanski-politics-green-party-leader

#ZackPolanski #CareWork

Care workers raise concerns over illegal pay and 'misleading' job adverts - The Mirror
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/care-workers-raise-concerns-over-36324189

#CareWork
#CareWorkers

Discriminating against child care (or any care work, for that matter) in #academia is rampant. For one, I acknowledge that female colleagues bear the brunt of this discrimination and we should all strive to make our communities inclusive, care for all of their members as human beings, and create a meaningful work-life balance.

But, as much as I appreciate funders of research grants acknowledging the structural gender gap in providing flat-rate extensions for care work (looking at you my, fellow cis male colleagues, who use parental leave for travelling or writing books), we have to call them out for doing so on the cheap! You cannot create a meaningful change by playing a zero-sum game, simply redistributing existing funds from “dads” to “moms” (solely read in a binary, biological terms of sex).

As small as this group might be, there are parental care givers out there, who do not identify as moms. Who work part-time, who are single parents, who continue to take informal parental leave etc. etc.

#careWork

Yes, it’s done!
 Ich freue mich morgen auf die Eröffnung der Ausstellung *WORKWORKWORK: Dimensions of To Do’s* im Ausstellungsraum Klingental Basel, die ich gemeinsam mit Sascia Bailer im Rahmen der Regionale 26 kuratiert habe. Auch Kunst ist Arbeit – definitiv. Wir legen den Fokus auf künstlerische Arbeiten, die bezahlte wie auch unbezahlte Arbeit sichtbar thematisieren.

ausstellungsraum.ch

#work #carework #sustainability #feminism #equality #digitalisierung #motherhood #worklife

@humunion

Das klingt spontan sehr gut, aber wie verträgt sich
"[...] Das Amt ist eine Vollzeitstelle (40 Stunden pro Woche). In Anbetracht des Arbeitsaufwandes und der Kompetenzen (siehe unten) erscheinen 40 Stunden bezahlte Arbeit pro Woche notwendig. [...]"
mit Menschen, die aus Gründen wie dem #GdB oder #Carearbeit nicht Vollzeit arbeiten können?
Da wird dann ja schon wieder exkludiert.

#Familien #DisabledAlltag #Inklusion #CareWork #Pflege #Teilhabe

New Article: »Reviewing is Caring! Revaluing a Critical, but Invisibilized, Underappreciated, and Exploited Academic Practice«

Together wie Mie Plotnikof (Aarhus University) and Matthias Wenzel (Leuphana University Lüneburg), I have written an essay proposing a care perspective to the way we organize academic peer review. The paper entitled “Reviewing is Caring! Revaluing a Critical, but Invisibilized, Underappreciated, and Exploited Academic Practice” has now been published open access in Organization. Check out the abstract below:

Reviewing is critical to advancing scholarly knowledge by assuring research standards and contouring what counts as novel. Yet, our system of reviewing submissions to journals is in crisis. With growing submission numbers, editors struggle to match these with qualified review capacities, unwillingly adding extra, often uneven, workloads on some reviewers, without equally distributing pressures or finding the most ‘ideal’ expert match. We propose to redress this issue in terms of care. Inspired by feminist care theory, we discuss how the current review system invisibilizes, underappreciates, and exploits the care invested in it. Furthermore, we suggest reconsidering the very organizing of the review system along the lines of care to reinvigorate the nurturing, knowledge-enhancing practices of reviewing. Specifically, we recommend (1) increasing the visibility of reviewing across journals, (2) recognizing reviewing as an inherent part of paid scholarly work, and (3) introducing cross-journal review limits. Together, we argue that such moves enable a more visibly appreciative and less easily exploitative organizing of reviewing as a scholarly practice of care that we and all science indeed rely on.

Finally, I created another visualization of the paper’s motif to share with the hashtag #1paper1meme:

#1paper1meme #careWork #Organization #PeerReview #reviewing #reviewingIsCaring

Interested in discussing #Democracy, #JobGuarantee, #CareWork and many other topics in #Philosophy #Politics and #Economics?

Join us in #Groningen for the 4th Groningen – #Wharton #PPE #Workshop on 8 and 9 September 2025.

All info here: https://www.rug.nl/filosofie/organization/news-and-events/events/2024/ppe/ppe-wharton-workshop-2025?lang=en

At the CA Democratic Convention, rallying for #CareNotCuts ! #CADem #HomeCare #Childcare #CareWork #CABudget #budget