I am for the moment
making an article about We Are Resident and residency of Helen
Sargeant in Tampere Takahuhti arthouse for Tampere art association
magazine Täydellinen ympyrä. I will share the same text here after
I have finished it.
We have made the text together with Helen and there was one thing
that Helen said that start this thought of mine.
Helen tells: “The
work that I am interested in making visible is care work and domestic
work. In Britain today it is women who still do the majority of care
and domestic work. My work is political in that I am highlighting
that this is still an issue, and prevents many women from reaching
their potential in the labour market or that they find it difficult
to be able to work outside the home. Care work mainly goes on inside
the home where it is unseen. Ideally the work that parents do would
be more equitable.”
I red this and I was thinking my
previous
text about My
time, his time, our time.
Our
gender roles in our family seems very different. My partner is
home-daddy and I am the one who works outside of the house. Neither
of us likes to clean, but Laurent cooks and I do the laudry. We
both are not at all work- or money -oriented. We have get used to be
poor
(in
Finnish scale).
I did my master of arts graduating work about idleness. I like the
books of British writer Tom Hodgkinson as well as Gorz, Lafargue and
Illich.
Still it is more me, who wants to work and who is more
ambitious.
I
think in Finland there is no more that kind of expectations of gender
roles and domestical work or care work, unleast not same much as in
Britain it seems to be. Time to time people ask me when my partner is
planning to start work, but for most of the people (unleast in our social bubble) being home–daddy don't wake up any questions.
Finnish
writer, politician and
feminist Anna Kontula wrote very beautifull text called
”Vapaan naisen rakkaus”, - Love of a free woman.
I
try to translate one
paragraph
of it:
”Love
is luxury of those, whose bread don't depend on chose of spose. Thanks
to my ancestress's
work of equality, I can take who I wan't, and there is no bigger
freedom. I have my career, my room and my bank account, and I need
no man for another thing than just for love him.”
*annakontula.fi/2016/09/vapaan-naisen-rakkaus/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork
