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jayveesto.bsky.social
speaking of horrifying monsters.

my aunt told my severly burnt out mother to just change her outlook re: the carework for my grandmother.

my aunt asked me to help her with her printer.
she really really needs to print out this document today :(

i don't want to help her tbh :,)
September 25, 2026 at 6:02 AM
keguro.blacksky.app
I am drafting a keynote titled “Queer Practice,” where I name four elements of such practice:

1. Mourning
2. Militancy
3. Carework
4. Worldbuilding

It gathers stuff I’ve been thinking about for a while and attempts to articulate something about what queer has meant and might mean now.
September 24, 2026 at 2:52 PM
sineadgleeson.bsky.social
​A new book from one of my favourite writers (and author of The Outrun), Amy Liptrot. An ecological memoir about seaweed, family, carework, the planet. The Tangles* is out in February 2027 with @canongate.co.uk

​*In Orkney dialect, 'Tangles' means seaweed

canongate.co.uk/books/5280-t...
September 24, 2026 at 11:19 AM
pacesinplaces.bsky.social
Thank you! Tho caregiving — carework — doesn’t need to be framed in religious terms (eg, sacred). It does need fair pay and so on because it’s labor. Is it valued beyond faint praise?

P. S. to everyone: If your parents are alive they are aging. Everyone who’s living is aging. Aging *is* living.
September 23, 2026 at 3:35 PM
larryneufeldsk.bsky.social
When Childhood and Carework Are Militarized, Childcare Workers and Children Become “Legitimate” Targets of “War”
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When Childhood and Carework Are Militarized, Childcare Workers and Children Become “Legitimate” Targets of “War”
Slack & Idle: Notes on the Canadian Military, Militarism, and Imperialism
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September 23, 2026 at 1:11 PM
jayveesto.bsky.social
lmao my aunt brought my mother a carton of cigarettes from her latest vacation, like my aunt's constant vacations aren't part of the reason my mother smokes way too much these days cause it means my mother's gotta do all the carework for my grandmother w/o any breaks hahahaha aaaaahhhhhh
September 21, 2026 at 11:43 AM
schoenenberger.bsky.social
What happens when working-age employees become unpaid caregivers? New OA longitudinal research from Germany traces consequences across work and family life.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Sociology #OpenAccess #CareWork
Transitioning Into Informal Care During Working Age: Longitudinal Evidence on the Work–Family Interface Among Employees in Germany - Journal of Family and Economic Issues
Previous research has examined the impact of informal caregiving on labour market participation and health, but findings remain inconclusive, often due to endogeneity problems. This study aims to adva...
link.springer.com
September 17, 2026 at 7:44 AM
atrjournal.bsky.social
Excited to share a sneak peek of our upcoming issue on #carework and its links to #migration, #exploitation, and #humantrafficking. To be published at the end of the month. Which article are you looking forward to reading?
Guest editors @mariesegrave.bsky.social, Shih Joo Tan, and Lubna Jebin.
September 16, 2026 at 9:12 AM
ninalewis.bsky.social
"Britons", "carers", "people", "1 in 5 employees"...
The one word this Guardian article doesn't use is "women". Why not, when it is overwhelmingly women who quit their jobs or go part-time to care for ailing relatives?
Badly done, #Guardian!!!
#poverty
#carework

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
About 1,500 Britons a day quitting their jobs to become unpaid carers
More than a million people have left work to look after loved ones in the past two years, Carers UK says
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2026 at 7:46 AM
jajaboom.bsky.social
Ich habe auch gehört, dass es mehr Ärzt:innen gibt, die lieber Teilzeit arbeiten wollen. Der Anteil an Ärztinnen ist auch gewachsen, die können wegen Carework auch weniger arbeiten.
September 15, 2026 at 5:37 AM
jun-orphancross.bsky.social
Yees I love them all but tiiiiime, and then being creative myself and then adulting and then carework and then sleep. 😔
September 14, 2026 at 5:29 PM
pacesinplaces.bsky.social
Caregivers do SO MUCH, now this too?! #care #CareWork #Caregiving is labor
September 13, 2026 at 5:11 AM
cindym.bsky.social
my goodness
that is a lot on your plate moti dear! as the eldest daughter, I thot that I would care for aging parents; to put it shortly, they said, "no"; it is nearly 10 years that I'm parent-less, I miss my mother, quite a bit.
Carework is taxing!
I've all I can manage w myself, nagging others.😊
September 11, 2026 at 4:33 PM
geocollective.bsky.social
"Support work can be isolating. Even in a team, you might find yourself working alone most days, with little time or space to reflect on how things are really going. At Equal Care, we’ve been developing a different way of doing things..."
#CareWork #Coops

blog.equalcare.coop/peer-supervi...
Peer Supervision: A Quiet Revolution in Support Work
Support work can be isolating. Even in a team, you might find yourself working alone most days, with little time or space to reflect on how things are really going. At Equal Care, we’ve been developin...
blog.equalcare.coop
September 8, 2026 at 6:01 PM
afamiglietti.org
Sure, but on the other hand, incredibly lucky freaks like you and me aside, most people really don't want to do what they do right now!

The real problem is on the consumer side. There already aren't enough buyers for all the would-be crafters out there. Carework we need but won't pay for.
September 5, 2026 at 12:06 PM
zachweinersmith.bsky.social
OK, probably a bad idea, but something's gotta give. These ideas about everyone doing human-value-added jobs (crafts? carework? writing memoirs?) really do not handle the fact that most people don't wanna do that stuff.
September 5, 2026 at 12:03 PM
virvavalkea.bsky.social
I have written a long overdue update about my carework situation with Papa Shroom.

ko-fi.com/post/Papa-Sh...

Shares are appreciated! 💚

#Disability #MutualAid #MABoost #DisabilityCrowdfund #TransCrowdfund
Papa Shroom 7 - Stagnation & Resignation
Virva Valkea published a supporter-only post on Ko-fi!
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September 3, 2026 at 8:05 PM
storiedselves.bsky.social
yup. And those same academics also normally engage in extensive carework with similarly-positioned students, as well.
September 3, 2026 at 2:10 PM
terrainorg.bsky.social
Check out the latest in Terrain.org in our Terrain.org This Week update on Substack:

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Terrain.org - Online Environmental Magazine of Literature and Place
Terrain.org is an online environmental magazine of poetry, nonfiction, fiction, editorials, interviews, reviews, Unsprawl case studies, and art since 1998.
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August 30, 2026 at 11:42 PM
socialstrat5.bsky.social
VII. Gender
VIII. Elites
93. Explaining Asian American Academic Achievement Amy Hsin and Yu Xie 94. Assessing What is Cultural about Asian Americans' Academic Advantage Min Zhou and Jennifer Lee VII. Gender Theories 95. Gender as a Social Structure Seth A. Behrends and Barbara J. Risman 96. Intersectionality Kimberle Crenshaw 97. Why Race, Class, and Gender Matter Margaret L. Andersen and Patricia Hill Collins 98. The Intersectional Effects of Race and Gender in Social Relations Cecilia L. Ridgeway 99. Hybrid Masculinities: Theorizing Intersectional Shifts in Gendered Power and Inequality Tristan Bridges and C.J. Pascoe 100. Doing Gender, Determining Gender: Transgender People, Gender Panics, and the Maintenance of the Sex/Gender/Sexuality System Laurel Westbrook and Kristen Schilt 101. Trans Kids Tey Meadow 102. Measurement Matters: Sex and Gender in Surveys Aliya Saperstein and Laurel Westbrook Family 103. Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty? Shelley J. Correll, Stephen Benard, and In Paik 104. Greedy Work Claudia Goldin 105. Can We Finish the Revolution? Gender, Work-Family Ideals, and Institutional Constraint David Pedulla and Sarah Thébaud 106. Shifting Burden of Carework: The Hidden Cost of Paid Childcare Mary Romero 107. Inequality and Power in Families Headed by Two Moms Mignon R. Moore 108. Social Science and Marriage Equality Michael Rosenfeld Labor Force and Employment 109. U.S. Female Labor Force Participation: Falling Behind Other Countries Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn 110. From Opt Out to Blocked Out: The Challenges for Labor Market Re-entry after Family-Related Employment Lapses Katherine Weisshaar 111. Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of ‘Blind’ Auditions on Female Musicians. Claudia Goldin and Cecilia Rouse 112. Do Openly Gay Men Experience Employment Discrimination? András Tilcsik Gender Wage Gap 113. About Those 79 Cents Adia Harvey Wingfield 114. The Sources of the Gender Pay Gap: An Economics Perspective Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn 115. Does an Occupation’s Percent Female Affect How Much it Pays? An Update on the Devaluation Thesis Paula England and Felix Busch 116. A Gender Agenda: A Progress Report on Competitiveness Muriel Niederle 117. Overwork and the Slow Convergence in the Gender Gap in Wages Youngjoo Cha and Kim A. Weeden Occupational Gender Segregation 118. Trends in Occupational Gender Segregation Kim A. Weeden 119. Who’s a “Good Fit"? Segregation, Stereotypes, and STEM Sarah Thébaud and Maria Charles 120. The Self-Expressive Edge of Occupational Sex Segregation Erin Cech 121. Gendered Organizations in the New Economy Christine L. Williams, Chandra Muller, and Kristine Kilanski 122. Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labour Market Outcomes in Norway. Marianne Bertrand, Sandra Black, Sissel Jensen, Adriana Lleras-Muney Sexual Violence 123. Inequality and Sexual Violence Miriam Gleckman Krut, Lanora Johnson, and Elizabeth A. Armstrong 124. Sexual Harassment in the #MeToo Era Heather McLaughlin and Christopher Uggen VIII. Elites 125. The Ruling Class Gaetano Mosca 126. The Power Elite C. Wright Mills 127. The Class-Dominance Theory of Power in the United States G. William Domhoff
August 27, 2026 at 10:50 PM
terrainorg.bsky.social
"Carework as Climate Work" is an excerpt of the important new book by Jennifer Case, The Carework Project: Reckoning with Love, Labor, and the Living World.

#care #carework #family #climate #climatechange #nonfiction #creativenonfiction #newbook
Carework as Climate Work - Terrain.org
"Carework as Climate Work" is an excerpt of the new book by Jennifer Case, The Carework Project: Reckoning with Love, Labor, and the Living World.
www.terrain.org
August 25, 2026 at 12:07 PM
smbccomics.bsky.social
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Part 1/3 of 9-panel SMBC comic update. This first section includes 3 panels. In the first panel, the narration says that "AI eliminated all knowledge work." A man at a podium tells a more-or-less enthused crowd "greats news, the public! Any job that can be done remotely is now gone!" As the narration explains that "economists said the future looked bright," a man explains that machines will do all the difficult tasks, leaving people to focus on carework. "Now, we will all serve each other!" The narration underlines that putting 100% of the population into carework was less beautiful than imagined. The panel below shows a person ill fitted to a care job clash with their assigned person. Part 2/3 of 9-panel SMBC comic update. This second section includes 3 panels. As the situation progresses, carework is also automated. The first panel shows a women crying happily when a robot introduces himself by saying he has no selfhood and exists to serve her and validate even her most idiotic political views. She says "I'm… I’m… excuse me, there’s something stuck in my eye." In the next panel, the narration establishes that economists revised their plan for the glorious future, as the man for them first panel returns to his podium to declare that "with all necessary tasks automated, we will only compete on our ability to form human relationships." The narration emphasizes that this turned out to an apt description of hell, as the crowd asks "wait, did you just say we'll all work in customer service?" The man at the podium aggressively walks away, stating "lecture over!" Part 3/3 of 9-panel SMBC comic update. This final section includes 3 panels. The narration states that "solutions were considered" above a panel showing two men considering just giving people money, but recoiling at the idea that all free time would be spent on self-reflection. The narration then states "finally, we got it right" as the man at the podium explains to the crowd "henceforth, humanity will be fully employed in eternal pointless busywork, which is just painful enough to justify 48 hours of gaming on the weekend, and just endurable enough to come back on Monday. Utopia!" In the final panel, the narration explains "The lesson: working for your fellow man is far more degrading than working for no reason." Human looks joyfully to the horizon, saying "God bless alienated labor, and God bless America."
August 20, 2026 at 3:30 PM
antaresxiv.bsky.social
Take care of people who do carework professionally or for their family. Once they crash, it will take nearly a decade for them to recover.
rileybruce.bsky.social Riley Bruce @rileybruce.bsky.social · Aug 13
What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
August 19, 2026 at 5:26 PM
marisaisabell.bsky.social
Handcraft.

#DaresSalaam #tansania #photography #carework
August 18, 2026 at 6:22 AM
pinealgasm.bsky.social
#DisabilityJustice #DisabilitySupport #Accessibility #MutualAid #CareWork #DisabledPeople
August 15, 2026 at 5:34 AM