New Domestics Collective
What is the Collective?
The New Domestics Collective is an online community that seeks to give context for the domestics of yesteryear and courage to the New Domestics of today. By providing a forum for sharing stories, advice, photos, and recipes, the Collective aims to foster a conversation about domesticity that will help individuals achieve a high quality of life, with emphasis on the things that really matter. The Collective maintains that there are many viable paths to reclaiming domesticity. In other words, you don't have to quit your job or move to a farm to be a New Domestic! Who is the Collective for? The Collective is for anyone--men, women, singles, marrieds, students, full-time employees, stay at home parents--who desires to make their home a place of peace. The Collective especially seeks to engage 20-somethings (both male and female) who are in a critical position to determine the quality of life they would like to have and be able to provide for their families in the future. What's the Point? For thousands of years, domesticity has been a cultural norm that has provided stability and increased quality of life for the family unit. In the last one hundred years or so, we have witnessed a departure from domesticity that has changed the family structure and led many people to live in a constant state of emergency. The Collective hopes that by engaging in this online community people might begin to consider the viable possibility of having one spouse keep the home fires burning. The Collective exists to educate and empower people to reclaim domesticity from the consumer culture that tells them it is normal and right to put their kids in daycare 20-hours a week in order for them to buy a new SUV or take a vacation to Hawaii every year. But Doesn't Domesticity Represent Repression? Despite the negative portrayal from the media, domesticity means nothing more than the practice of maintaining security and stability in a home and can be defined as a broad task for all individuals to reclaim in order to create a better quality of life. The Collective seeks to challenge the stereotype that women and men who choose to care for the family and home are repressed and desperate. How Can I Get Involved? We need your help! Please enter your contact information if you are interested in sharing your domesticity wisdom, stories, photos, and/or recipes on the blog. |
“Every person in every circumstance needs a home—a senior citizen as much as a baby in a brood of twelve, couples who may or may not be legally wed, single parent families, roommates, blended families, foster families, and communities of like people under one roof, such as assisted-care facilities” |