Labor Workshop

We hold monthly workshops on important intersectionality ideas. These workshops provide time and space to discuss, share, and reflect upon our teaching practices with our colleagues. This episode is about our most recent workshop.

We defined different types of labor and discussed their significance. We then invited teachers and staff to think about the different types of labor they do for others as well as the types of labor they willingly accept and expect from others. We spent time reading about and discussing two significant topics: the labor women do for men and the labor women of color, specifically black women, do for white women. In doing this, we read from Virginia Woolf, Rachel Cargle, Kate Rushin, and Nellie Wong. We are grateful to these women for their labor and recognize that we can do this work because of the work they have done for us.

Questions to consider:
1. Why is it important that teachers understand, recognize, and honor different kinds of labor?
2. What types of labor do we expect from our students? What types of labor are expected of us as teachers?
3. Why is it important that we teacher our students about different types of labor and to honor different types of labor?

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