Waging Love

Send a text Why does evidence not become accountability? This episode introduces hegemony and intersectionality to explain how exploitation becomes common sense — and why reform often stabilizes the very structure it claims to change. The workforce crisis is not a labor problem alone. It is a governance problem. Works & Scholars Referenced Toni Morrison — “A Humanist View” (1975); Playing in t...

Send a text This episode traces how care was distributed and governed across race and gender. Indigenous care was removed. Black care was extracted. Latina care governed through precarity. Asian American and Pacific Islander care governed through invisibility and aggregation. Immigrant care governed through legal vulnerability. White women positioned as stabilizers. Men — especially white men — cl...

Send a text Early care and education in the United States is not a single system. It is a fragmented patchwork built across colonization, slavery, gendered labor norms, immigration policy, and market ideology. What looks like a workforce crisis is not accidental — it is structural. This episode traces how care became a market instead of a public good, how professionalization reshaped whose knowled...

Send a text Waging Love is a documentary podcast examining power, care, and governance in early childhood education in the United States. This series explores how care became underfunded, feminized, racialized, and normalized as sacrifice — and why what we call a “workforce crisis” is actually a design problem. Through history, research, and lived experience, Waging Love traces how Indigenous care...