The protests against police brutality and systemic racial inequality may feel unrelated to caregiving. However, care work and disability are intrinsically connected to race and class. It's most obvious in the way black and immigrant women have been funneled by market conditions and government programs into low paying, precarious, physically and emotionally demanding care work jobs.
Caregiving in the midst of an uprising
The protests against police brutality and systemic racial inequality may feel unrelated to caregiving. However, care work and disability are intrinsically connected to race and class. It's most obvious in the way black and immigrant women have been funneled by market conditions and government programs into low paying, precarious, physically and emotionally demanding care work jobs.
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