Courage calls

In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, where I’m from, it became apparent quite quickly who a lot of our protections were explicitly not made for: poor people. Calls for increased hand-washing don’t mean anything if your home doesn’t even have safe or clean water. Encouragement from influencers to stay home assumes you have one and that it’s safe to be in.

But this is what happens when ‘feminism’ is messaged primarily through ‘ambition’– code for white-collar ambition, and . What is presented as ‘feminism’ is often actually white feminism and gender progress is often presented as achieving a white-collar leadership position, starting a company, or finding a long-term ‘equal’ partner. The women who help you achieve this reality through domestic work are recognised only as ‘outsourcing’.