Their author agrees with the AFF
Laurie Penny 22 is an author, journalist, and screenwriter from London. They are a culture writer for Wired and have written for the Guardian, New Stateman, New York Times, Longreads, Time, and many more. They are a graduate of the Nieman Foundation Fellows’ programme at Harvard University and the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop. (Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback | DOA: 7/10/2023 | SAoki)
Secondly, governments must begin to treat domestic and care work as work, to recognise that work within the economy and back that recognition up with cash. The infrastructure of education, healthcare, social security, elder care and childcare that has been privatised and defunded over the past forty years must be revitalised and properly funded, so that the burden of reproducing life is no longer foisted onto Black, brown, immigrant and working-class women. The work of care, the work of common survival, has never been more critical than it is now. And like all monumental tasks, the work of keeping the species alive through the coming century will be more manageable if we can find a way, finally, to share it.