By Alexandra Chenelle 1. I play with a friend’s child while they watch basketball. I am pretending that the pink… Read more Notes On Childcare
Category: Housework
Animal Accumulation
By Brian Whitener | It is a cliché of the U.S. mediatic imaginary of Cuba: 1950s automobiles in the streets of… Read more Animal Accumulation
Soft Pharmakon
By Judy Thorne | Skincare is fantasy, a dream of self-care. “Softening”, “dewy”, “like a baby”, “nourishing”, you will… Read more Soft Pharmakon
“Fuck Off to Back Where You Came From”: Notes on The Phantom Thread
By Sophie Lewis | I’ve never cared about Daniel Day-Lewis particularly, and until today I didn’t know who PT Anderson… Read more “Fuck Off to Back Where You Came From”: Notes on The Phantom Thread
Advertising Housework: Labor and the Promotion of Pleasure in 1970s Domestic Interiors
By Sylvia Faichney | There are few practices that display the visual shift from modernism to postmodernism as succinctly as… Read more Advertising Housework: Labor and the Promotion of Pleasure in 1970s Domestic Interiors
Essays on Working
By Lindsay Turner | To tell you how it is would require extraordinary powers of mimesis, or it would require… Read more Essays on Working
Nine Notes on “Gender Strike”
By Madeline Lane-McKinley | 1. “Gender strike” describes the impossibility of a “general strike” only pronounced by conditions of feminization.… Read more Nine Notes on “Gender Strike”
The Wife, the Whore and the Single Girl: On the Intersection of Sex and Housework within the Couple Form
By Vanessa Parent | “Move in with me” he said, “Don’t accept that teaching job, don’t leave town. Live with… Read more The Wife, the Whore and the Single Girl: On the Intersection of Sex and Housework within the Couple Form
Burning Down the House: Resisting the Commodification of Motherhood and Domesticity
By Debra Thimmesch | Were I to catalog my belongings, the things that I have retained through the years, most… Read more Burning Down the House: Resisting the Commodification of Motherhood and Domesticity
The Politics of Housework in Contemporary India
By Mandara Vishwanath | This piece is a part of an ongoing series on housework. While in most parts of… Read more The Politics of Housework in Contemporary India
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