Meredith’s Reviews > Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change > Status Update
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Garbes: Mothering is hard work. It’s mentally, physically, and emotionally exhausting. For millions of Americans, the home is where the real work — the work that never changes, never stops, never goes away — gets fine. Weekends aren’t time off for parents; they are two long days of caregiving.
— Jun 26, 2022 05:40PM
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Meredith
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Carvell Wallace: Parenting, like life, is heartbreak followed by reality, followed by love, followed by loneliness, followed by despair, followed by jokes, followed by exhaustion.
— Jun 29, 2022 04:53PM
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Garbes: in my youth, my view of the world wasn’t so nuanced that I could see how life in the city and life in the woods weren’t opposites.
— Jun 29, 2022 04:41PM
Meredith
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Garbes: No woman, regardless of race or class, is safe from the expectation of reproductive labor. Even for the richest woman who are able to outsource all the work -- when the support support system they have built and hired vanishes amid a devastating years-long global health crisis -- the work still falls to them.
— Jun 27, 2022 08:57AM
