Labor Pains Project

An oral history through somatic body-mapping archival project examining the paid and unpaid labor experiences of Black women.

The project

The archive

The presentation

Tag: research

  • Week 14: Zora Neale Hurston: Laying the Foundation of Resilience

  • Week 13: Zora, Labor, and Identity

  • Week 12: Anansi’s Web – Resilience, Trickery, and Black Womanhood

  • Week 11: Beyond the Beat: The True Face of Respectability Politics

  • Week 10: Making the Invisible Visible

  • What is a Body Map? (And why am I using them for Labor Pains)

  • Week 5: Labor Pains – The Legacy of Unseen Labor

  • Week 4: Lent