Spring Reading!

Every month I take you along on my reading journey since I’ve had to suspend my studies this year (more on this in this post).

To be honest, I started reading ahead for March because my February book, Childism, was a tough read and I was getting annoyed with the word (childism is such an annoying word! why not adultism - perhaps that’s a post for another day) and also with the way the author framed childism predominantly as a prejudice and not as a systemic oppression that arises mostly as a result of material conditions. I could say more about this but this email is not about that!

And so I started reading ahead to March, which is going to be all about carework, one of my very favorite things to read, think and write about.

I was actually kind of shocked by how few, especially recent, books I could find that focued on domestic labor or carework, specifically from the lens of mothering and specifically ones that brought an intersectional feminist, or Indigenous, viewpoint to conversation. Maybe I didn’t look hard enough?!

Anyway, these are books I am going to read (I am giving myself both March & April since it’s a lot!):

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen

Tender: the imperfect art of caring by Penny Wincer

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes (I’ve already read this one, but I thought I’d include it since it’s relevant. Highly recommend this book, it’s one of my favourites on mothering, love and carework)

Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction and Feminist Struggle by Silvia Federici (also one I’ve already read but am planning to read again! Or, perhaps am going to look through Wages for Housework by Emily Callaci.

Restoring the Kinship Worldview by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) And Dacia Narvaez, pHD. (This one isn’t explicitly about carework but it is about care and caring for ourselves and our world, and I don’t think we can talk about carework without heavily relying on Indigenous perspectives.)

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting our Past and Re-Imagining our Future by Patty Krawec

Birth work as Care Work: Stories from activist birth communities by Alana Apfel

Happy reading!!