Domestic Labour
Domestic labour is the unpaid or underpaid work of sustaining daily life: care, cleaning, feeding, planning, emotional support, administration, and repair. In school advocacy, it connects to the unpaid family labour created when institutions fail children.
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Half a load behind: a postscript for Mother’s Day
Falling behind has arithmetic, legible only to those who have lived it. You were doing exactly what you always do — the same volume, the same effort, the same sustained output — but the baseline shifted, and “the same” no longer covered both the present and the correction. The deficit compounds because returning to zero…
