Reimagining Care and Work
Moderator: France Winddance Twine, Sociology
Is care the antithesis of work, a burden on those undertaking it, or a vital feminist intervention into the future of work? Certainly, care is an industry, one reliant on the unpaid and underpaid work of women, people of color, and the poor. But care is also a feminist praxis—a way of living with one another that centers independence and collective well-being over profit and productivity.
Holding together these tensions between work and care, this event offers new ways of thinking about how we can “put care at the very heart of our lives and politics” (The Care Manifesto) by illuminating care’s essential role in our collective survival, what it means for the reimagining of the university as a workplace, and how caring for, self-care, and caring about might be rethought for social justice.
Panelists
Eileen Boris — Feminist Studies
Jigna Desai — Univ of Minnesota (now UCSB)
Alex Mireles — Feminist Studies
Omise’eke Tinsley — Black Studies
Jane Ward — Feminist Studies