By Marie Solis — 2019
Calling holiday planning “emotional labor” can be counterproductive to recognizing housework as labor.
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When workers’ emotions deviate from what’s expected of their gender, they are often left to process the backlash on their own.
We’re exploring what it means to be queer and have a body, with essays about the ways our bodies are legislated and discriminated against, the strategies we’ve used to find belonging in them, and how we’re breaking down the stereotypes, preconceptions, and fetishization that many of us endure.
The constant scrutiny into the runner’s medical history reveals what happens to women who don’t conform to stereotypes.
It can’t be about “empowerment” any longer. To make real progress, it has to be about power—using and growing the power we women already have.