Show Notes
đ Taking a Break! đ Hey everyone! I am taking a short break for August to recharge and prepare exciting new content for you. Iâll be back in September with fresh episodes and engaging conversations. Thanks for your support and patience. Stay tuned for whatâs coming next! Iâm excited to have Danita Platt on the show today. I didnât know anyone of color in the field of care tasks until I met her. Her content resonates with me and my views around care tasks, so I hope youâll enjoy hearing more from Danita! Show Highlights:
Who Danita is and how she became an expert on gentle care tasks
How our society over the last two generations has moralized care tasks and tied them to the worth of a woman
Why we need to rethink our views about care tasks and âbeing a good womanâ that go back to the founding of the US, historically speaking
How the concept of âinvisible laborâ has carried over from colonial days even to today
How many white people were able to live the lives they did because of the cheap, exploitable labor of Black women
How the Great Migration happened to move many Black families to northern cities from the South
How the shift happened to push Black (and white) women to work industrial jobs while men were away during the war
How the push is recurring for 1950s homemaking to be viewed as the superior role for women
What we DONâT talk about in the fulfilling life of a homemaker
How Danita chooses to honor the Black women who had to wash clothes, clean house, and cook meals under duressâwith no freedom or choice of their own
What Danita would say to women who want to live more joyfully in their homes and experience more freedom and quality of life
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