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- - - - Understanding society from a broadly Marxist perspective, the function of those activities is to reproduce labour so that labour keeps being available and keeps being able to labour and that’s what the work of mothering, keeping house, medicine and all these things are doing.
- - - - Audre Lorde is also referred to as one of the original, popularising sources of what is now called "self-care"
        
        "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare" -- Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light
        
        Some other texts we studied that address the discourse and rhetoric of self-care
        
        Elizabeth Michaelson Monaghan, “My Self-Care Routine Involves Several Tons of Refined Sugar” (2018)
        
        Ingrid Goes West, dir. Matt Spicer (2017)
        
        Melissa Broder, “Stop Pressuring Me to Take Care of Myself” (2016)
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwR2Tue5Jfs
      - "Even before the biopsy, from the time I was admitted into the hospital Monday afternoon, the network of woman support had been begun by our friends. Blanche and Clare arrived from Southampton just in time before visiting hours were over bearing a gorgeous French rum and mocha cake with a marzipan banner that said 'we love you, audre,' out- rageously rich and sinfully delicious. When the findings were malignant on Tuesday, this network swung into high gear. To this day, I don't know what Frances and I and the children would have done without it." (29)
        
        Care as feminist solidarity
      - "The erotic is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire" -- Audre Lorde, "Uses of The Erotic" (1978)
- - - - I stressed that it's important to have a sense of how short a period of time that was normative — there’s a prevalent, casual assumption these days that the idea of the housewife is an ancient tradition that goes back hundreds of years, but it’s only normal for mothers not to go to work from 1930s to 1960s
      - Until the 1930s if you’re a middle-class woman being the lady of the house means managing the servants and if you’re a lower-class woman you’re still going out to work so the ideal of the housewife can be understood as an invention of the decline of domestic service in the 1930s
- - - - The Care Manifesto's model of "promiscuous care" emphasises our mutual interdependencies with one another and recommends the following steps towards a more caring society
        
        Creating spaces of mutual care -- including gardens, parks, cultural associations, and others sites where people can gather and form care communities
        
        Creating libraries that share material and immaterial resources—a library of things such as toys, books, etc., and even “‘time banks’, which enable people to swap thetime they spend on doing activities or jobs for each other, or via skill share sessions
        
        Informal collaboration over privatisation
        
        Engendering new municipalism that establishes and nurtures democratic caring communities by encouraging “insourcing,” literally meaning extending care to the caregivers (by strengthening job security, ensuring pensions, etc.)
        
        The replacement of the Welfare State with the Caring State, equipped with the infrastructures that care for individuals and help them care for their loved ones in need.
      - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_jPptWDOgQ&t=2115s