Today is blog for Domestic Workers Day. This idea was ignited by Salty Femme, but I found out about it at The Anti Essentialist Conundrum, a blog I frequently read.
My grandmother Rosa Belle and my mom Dorothy spent years scrubbing crud out of other people’s toilets in homes and hotel rooms and taking care of other people’s children.
My mom was a 12 year old girl when she found her first housekeeping job. By 14, she was spending time after school and on weekends as a ‘mother’s helper,’ or what we …