Scratch That: Parenting & ReParenting Off Script 🎙️ Reimagining Domesticity, Keeping House, & Care Work with Laura Danger
In today's episode, Laura Danger (aka @thatdarnchat) dives into a candid conversation with us about care work, domestic labor, and the powerful/often invisible scripts that shape our life choices, relationship dynamics, and home lives. Offering a unique perspective as a parent with ADHD and bipolar 2, Laura invites us to go off script, tune out default societal expectations, and set the terms for our homes, relationships, and stories.
Tune in to hear us talk about:
🧑🎨 Being an artsy emo punk feminist who also has a crush on Freddie Prinze Jr.
🔎 Learning to decipher our own desires from society's expectations.
🧑🧑🧒 Co-parenting as a useful framework for all the parenting.
😳 The embarrassing realization that you're living inside a cliché sitcom, and you're playing the part of the naggy sitcom mom.
✨ Looking to queer, multigenerational, and divorced families for tools to build a framework of care without any assumptions.
♿️ The complicated ways disability disrupts traditional scripts around gender and care work.
📝 How difficult it can be to actually embody an alternate script.
꩜ The shame that can spiral when a neurodivergent person sees their sink full of dirty dishes.
💎 Laura Danger's interesting bit of hope built on a tiny bit of data.
Mentioned In Today's Episode:
Laura Danger's upcoming book with Dutton publishing is called No More Mediocre: A Call to Reimagine Our Relationships and Demand More — make sure you're following @thatdarnchat for the cover reveal and pre-order link on April 21!
And check out Laura Danger's podcast, Time to Lean!
Laura also mentioned Eve Rodsky's book, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live).
As Always:
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We would love to hear from you! How are you coping (or not!) with all the demands the domestic world? Are there ways you are forced out of the traditional scripts around care work? Or do you long to break out of them, but find it difficult to actually do?
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