Angela Garbes
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147 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 10 May
Angela Garbes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I've gone through phases of being really angry and really disillusioned.
But right now, my friend Ai-jen Poo, who's the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, who's part of a coalition called Care Can't Wait, and they formed during COVID to deal with this care crisis.
There is actually, right now, senators are doing budget reconciliation on a bill that would put money into childcare, home care, and elder care.
And so in this moment, if you're looking for something to do, if you've been affected by care, and I know all of us have been, you can call your senators right now and tell them to fund care.
And this is not an opportunity that comes up all the time.
So I feel hopeful, you know, because there's an actionable item that we can do.
I also feel hopeful because in the pandemic, what I saw when people formed pods, right, when people started having these play dates, that was people saying, I can't do this alone.
Right?
We are not meant to take care of children, to take care of our elders, to take care of the disabled, to take care of the sick.
We're not meant to do that in isolation.
We can't.
And I saw so many examples in the pandemic, like, we are surviving this not because the government sent us eight tests.
We're surviving this because we took care of each other.
And I see that all around me.
And I think if we lean into that and continue, I don't want that to go away as the pandemic moves more into the rearview mirror.
I'm glad that you see that. We share a vibe.
Sure. I mean, I wrote this book You know, part of it came out of the grief and loss that I felt at the start of the pandemic. As a writer, I had sort of nebulous deadlines, and I didn't get a regular paycheck or health insurance. But my husband's job gave us that. So I basically stopped writing. And because childcare centers closed, I was taking care of my kids.
And I knew that that was the most important work I could be doing. But it also... I felt like I wasn't getting any recognition for it. We were hearing about essential workers, healthcare workers, sanitation workers who are, yes, essential, but we were never hearing about parents who were working 24-7 trying to take care of their families, trying to keep communities safe.
And that's really where this is what I know you understand is that Domestic work, mothering, we do it to ourselves every day, feeding ourselves, taking a shower. Without care work and domestic labor, you know, this is the work that makes all other work possible. The idea that domestic labor is somehow less valuable than quote-unquote professional work I just think it's a myth.
Sure.
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