Thread by @PantheaLee

Gives me chills to read this from a state recovery plan:

"The road to economic recovery should not be across women’s backs..."

[thread]

“Economy” comes from Greek, meaning to “manage the household".

Women in our communities have never been busier taking care of loved ones, provisioning supplies, finding ways to offset the enormous economic and social burdens of this time."

"These aspects of the economy usually go uncounted + hidden yet there would be no economy without them.

The cheap value of caregiving is not natural; it has political origins. Caregiving, associated with / expected of women, is necessary for economic production to take place..."

"...yet it is split off from economic production, thereby structurally subordinating women in society.

Rather than rush to rebuild the status quo of inequality, we need a deep structural transition to an economy that better values the work we know is essential to sustaining us."

From Commission ED @PolishedJaded on what informed the plan:

"I have not seen any state or nation propose a feminist economic recovery, a recovery that explicitly centers women or attempts to counteract patriarchy. Even proposals from left movements in the US are missing this."

"They're bold on race + class but gender is taken for granted. People don’t seem to understand the fundamental role of patriarchy, how to tie gender in with race + class.

So I turned to people w/ real power—women organizing inside + outside govt. This plan provides a blueprint"

I'd love an @PolishedJaded @aijenpoo @akrishnan23 interview on themes in / revolutionary potential of the Hawai'i plan, hosted by @kristatippett @ezraklein.

#saturdaymorningdreams