Spent much of today finishing reading Making Motherhood Work by @CaitlynMCollins and I’m now DEEP in my feelings (mostly rage, frustration, disappointment) about labor protections, social safety nets, health care access, and social expectations around care work.
U.S. workers should be LIVID that FMLA, ACA, and disjointed unregulated privatized child and elder care is the best our government have done.
Wait, folks who LIVE in the U.S. should be mad, because paid labor should not be the requirement for being able to not-die and being able to take care of and spend time with your family (nuclear, biological, extended, and/or chosen family).
Still swinging wildly between anger & sadness. The US is a place that allows tax deductions on a second home, but doesn’t guarantee safe, affordable care for children or access to healthcare. Where access to education & healthcare is related to local businesses, not human rights.
My extended family and their friends should be happy that I’m staying home these holidays. Currently in a state far worse than when I argued that employment and military hair style standards were racist.
By “state” I mean the place where I’m unwilling to accept racism, classism, and other conservative heteronormative standards politely just to make it through a meal.
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