'Essential Labor' author Angela Garbes on the undervaluing of care-based work.
. As a result of the COVID-19 shutdown, many parents lost their jobs and many mothers left work to accommodate home-schooling after schools closed. Essential employees—including health care workers, teachers, and grocery store employees—were also forced to grapple with nonexistent childcare, all while still working full-time jobs.
Educator Mariame Kaba said, “Hope is a discipline.” When I think about it, we can’t afford to not insist on this. There were people who never stopped working during the pandemic and were figuring out childcare. What most other countries seem to understand when it comes to paid family leave is that everyone deserves a basic quality of life, and we have really abandoned that in America. There’s an idea in this country that if you have more money, you are more deserving than others.
In your chapter titled “Mothering for Pleasure,” you openly wrote about your sex life. Was that hard to do? I said to her, “I want them to have a more pleasurable sex life…. I don’t want them to be in their 20s or 30s before they start to figure outin their bodies. And that’s what I hope for.” She listened but didn’t say anything. I want my daughters to know that we are going to talk about sex, and I want them to know that they can ask me questions.
In your chapter on mothering as natural interdependence, you write, “Love is an act of attention.” Our attention, as mothers especially, has had to be divided throughout the pandemic. How do you think that changed the way we love?
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