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On the reenchantment of invisible labor
Cook, clean, comfort, teach, repeat. Social reproduction is the engine of collective life and housework its most intimate geography. What we don’t attend to turns invisible, and both the labor of housework and those who perform it are frequent victims of this invisibility. In this course we will attend closely to often-marginalized domestic labor. We will do so from three distinct sociocultural vantage points: housework as world-building, as art practice, and as ritual.
Our time together will take us through the International Wages for Housework movement of the 1970s, thinkers on the politics of care such as M.E. O’Brien and Mai’a Williams, the art practices of Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Mona Hatoum, and the contemplative work of Thich Nhat Hanh. Through discussion, attention practices, collaborative writing, and experimental performance art, we will explore historical and contemporary interventions into housework and investigate what rigorous attention might alchemize our daily labor into.
Students should come ready to examine the role of housework in their own lives with generous curiosity. Dirty dishes optional.
Led by feminist writer, researcher, and organizer Zafi Tate.
Wednesdays, 6:30-9:00pm
November 4-18
Our courses cost $250, with a Supporter rate for students with an income above 100k. We also offer a Supported rate for students with constraining circumstances.
Please see our Refund Policy HERE.
Additionally, we offer three tuition-waiver scholarships per course. To apply for a scholarship, click HERE.
On the reenchantment of invisible labor
Cook, clean, comfort, teach, repeat. Social reproduction is the engine of collective life and housework its most intimate geography. What we don’t attend to turns invisible, and both the labor of housework and those who perform it are frequent victims of this invisibility. In this course we will attend closely to often-marginalized domestic labor. We will do so from three distinct sociocultural vantage points: housework as world-building, as art practice, and as ritual.
Our time together will take us through the International Wages for Housework movement of the 1970s, thinkers on the politics of care such as M.E. O’Brien and Mai’a Williams, the art practices of Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Mona Hatoum, and the contemplative work of Thich Nhat Hanh. Through discussion, attention practices, collaborative writing, and experimental performance art, we will explore historical and contemporary interventions into housework and investigate what rigorous attention might alchemize our daily labor into.
Students should come ready to examine the role of housework in their own lives with generous curiosity. Dirty dishes optional.
Led by feminist writer, researcher, and organizer Zafi Tate.
Wednesdays, 6:30-9:00pm
November 4-18
Our courses cost $250, with a Supporter rate for students with an income above 100k. We also offer a Supported rate for students with constraining circumstances.
Please see our Refund Policy HERE.
Additionally, we offer three tuition-waiver scholarships per course. To apply for a scholarship, click HERE.