@tracydurnell Oh, I’m a couple of days late to this post but honestly I could relate to almost every single word! I left teaching at the end of last year and since then I’ve basically been a “housewife” (lol what an old-fashioned word…) which is, actually, a ton of work. It’s just that almost no one respects it as work, because you don’t have a boss paying you for it. Once upon a time the feminist movement tried to draw attention to the reality that housework is work, but those days seem far behind us, even though it’s as true as ever. I still struggle to break free from the hold the “cult of productivity” has over my psyche, sometimes; lifelong conditioning, I guess. I also like @restlesslens‘s framing that we’re doing something subversive :)