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The reproduction of society calls for a particular set of feelings seen as socially appropriate. Different feelings are the right ones in different social circumstances. For people to feel well, someone needs to create good feelings. These feelings of niceness are a core function of the bourgeois family. There can be a lot of work involved in creating a spirit of niceness at family dinners and holidays, where conflict needs to be held at bay. It is also a key feminine task – smoothing over conflict, soothing hurt feelings, creating a spirit of relaxation and wellbeing. Women are called to perform these tasks in their families, at work, and among friends and acquaintances. Niceness is a bourgeois family value which women are compelled to create through both domestic and emotional labour. In this way, the gendering of feeling reproduces a split subjectivity where women are tasked with creating relationality and emotional wellbeing, while men have licence to act as solitary individuals, affirming their own importance and worth over others.

This lens of emotional reproduction allows us to see how gender is intimately connected to work. The work that we do becomes part of how we experience ourselves as subjects. Our self-understanding of what types of work we can do, what skills we have, is closely linked to how we perceive ourselves as gendered subjects. Moreover, the process of becoming a properly gendered subject can itself be understood as a form of work – the labour we do on ourselves to manage our relation to gendered norms. Sometimes we work to live up to such norms, and sometimes we work to distance ourselves from them. The labour of becoming a gendered subject is never complete. Gender consists of ideal forms to which people are compelled to aspire, with varying degrees of success, not as forms that can be fully inhabited by any individual. While these forms are ideological, they are also both the results and the preconditions of gendered forms of labour. Gender ideals are often multiple and contradictory. It is impossible to fully adhere to idealised gender norms. These norms are a way of extracting a certain amount of labour, despite or because of the fact that fully living up to hegemonic gender ideals is an impossible goal. Women tend to be perceived, and perceive themselves, as more caring than men. Their very personalities therefore become conflated with a specific type of work: emotional reproduction.”]

Women in Comics Week 2 • Favourite women-led project

Bahia Leaf Frog (Phyllomedusa bahiana), BIG STEPPY!!!, family Hylidae, endemic to Bahia, Brazil

It was real when y’all dressed up in cosplays, and made fan art, and went to conventions, and got to interact with your faves through their social platforms…but suddenly when bigotry is involved, it’s not that big of a deal.

Let me rephrase what y’all are trying to say: POC don’t get to have fandom. We don’t get to have media. That part of the real world is something we’re not allowed to touch. It’s the one space that discrimination and prejudice will always thrive, because you refuse to acknowledge the layers of racism for what they are.

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