reproductive labor
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The Work That Doesn’t Count
I recently read an article on emotional labor in leadership. This article, “Heavier Lies Her Crown: Gendered Patterns of Leader Emotional Labor and Their Downstream Effects,” brought to mind a particular memory. Years ago, as an assistant manager at a large grocery retailer, I sat in my boss’s office discussing a situation. During our conversation,…
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Care, Labor, and the Work of Holding Things Together
My work always starts with the personal. I make paintings that explore memory, identity, and inheritance: what we carry, what we hide, and what we pass on. Much of this comes from family life, especially the complicated relationships among women across generations. I revisit these relationships not to solve them, but to understand how they…