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it's kat! 🇵🇸✊

on this international workers' day, a thought for those whose labour goes largely unacknowledged, unappreciated & unpaid. here's to the carers & the cleaners & everyone else without whom the world would pretty much grind to a halt. ask iceland.
#iwd #internationalWorkersDay #huitHeures #1erMai #work #labour #art #illustration

it's kat! 🇵🇸✊6d ago

for a more thorough investigation of what i mean by this, here's a paper called 'domestic work, neoliberalism & transforming labor', for which i extend my humblest gratitude to @dyckron, who made me aware of it.

G. Gibson 6d ago

@kathimmel Don't you think it about time to pay domestic laborer's a living wage? Look at the contribution ... right?

it's kat! 🇵🇸✊6d ago

@mistergibson yes. yes, i do. unequivocally.

Geri ❤️6d ago

@kathimmel @mistergibson

Oct 24, 2023 Around 90% of Iceland's female workforce, including the Prime Minister, went on strike, seeking to highlight the importance of women to the economy. Is this what you are driving at, Kat xx

G. Gibson 6d ago

@Geri @kathimmel Yes, I hope to popularize the notion that citizens can withhold their labor and commerce to leverage the 1%.

it's kat! 🇵🇸✊6d ago

@Geri @mistergibson indeed, geri. :)

Linda 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹6d ago

@kathimmel @Geri @mistergibson don’t get sentimental about Iceland. Equal pay across workplaces is still not yet achieved and sadly it is a racist society. I love Iceland, used to live and work there, and return every year, but people outside of Iceland often have misconceptions about the country.

it's kat! 🇵🇸✊6d ago

@Lassielmr @Geri @mistergibson wasn't really getting sentimental in my reference to the 1975 women's strike. the overarching theme of my art is still just a reminder that there's a lot of unpaid labour in the world that most people don't even notice.

it's kat! 🇵🇸✊6d ago

@Lassielmr @Geri @mistergibson also: IS there a predominantly white society that isn't racist?

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦6d ago

@kathimmel 🗣 THANK YOU!

it's kat! 🇵🇸✊6d ago

@blogdiva i appreciate you. :)

The_Caretaker 6d ago

@kathimmel
There should be a civil service job for full time parents or homemakers regardless of gender, but for the sake of ease, call the job "mother" The state should pay them a living wage with medical benefits and retirement pension. If more women had the option to actually make raising children a career with retirement benefits and didn't need to serve a man just to have a child, more of them might decide to have and raise children.

it's kat! 🇵🇸✊5d ago

@The_Caretaker even though i'm slightly averse to the term 'civil service', i agree with your basic premise. /everyone/, regardless of ability to work, should be financially secure & have access to all life's comforts.

Damn straight. Domestic labor is absolutely no-questions-asked labor!

it's kat! 🇵🇸✊5d ago

@pierat more people need to realise this.