week 7: social reproduction theory & Domestic care work

"We want to call work what is work so that eventually we might rediscover what is love and create what will be our sexuality which we have never known."

—Silvia Federici, “Wages Against Housework”

barstow road, depressive

women with rhythm in their verb

talk laundry, pinched wabes,

long hours. live in. live out. twin

misses home. the new plantation.

she dust legacy

privileged oil paintings, things

peruvian belle

almost 8 years here. this house

no room for her. except work.

—Christine Yvette Lewis, leader in Domestic Workers United,

poet with the Worker Writers School