Care Talk

Sex, Work, and Care

3 December 2024

Sex workers forge critical connections to end gender violence, combat stigma and criminality, and build a more caring world.

The Nappy Revolution

18 November 2024

Caring for Life: a new book that re-values nappy-free infant hygiene care practices

The Rise of Anti-Care

18 November 2024

Some post-U.S. election advice: keep the faith and fight the backlash.

Sociologists on Care

4 November 2024

A Scottish researcher muses on insights from a recent conference.

Mexico’s “Women’s Moment”: What we can learn from Mexican feminisms about women in power and feminist practices of care

4 November 2024

As US voters consider whether to follow Mexico’s lead in electing its first female president, a reminder that real change needs to happen in the streets.

Mexico Lowers Age of Social Security for Women

21 October 2024

Extending its noncontributory pension benefit, Mexico’s new program will give more spending money to women in their early 60s.

Men and Care Work: Can Unions Help?

29 September 2024

New research suggests that men in labor unions help out more at home.

Having Children and Saving the World

15 September 2024

Pro-natalists don’t seem to realize that “having” children requires both caring and paying for them.

Would Care Be a Gift? 

Care as a gift places us all as caretakers *and* caregivers, in a reciprocity dynamic in which our autonomy is directly connected to the moments in which we were not and will not be autonomous. In this sense, care cannot be commodified nor mediated by the market as a mere product of capitalism.

Understanding the  Care Economy

5 August 2024

Why we need better data on the care economy, how we can get it, and what we could do with it.

Dreaming Big

5 August 2024

A new year and a new grant has us imagining the next horizon for the Revaluing Care project.

Child Care Manifesto

31 May 2024

What comes after consciousness raising for child care workers and the families who rely on them?