Babysitters' Club
Aug. 2nd, 2020 09:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brainwaneI've now finished The Baby-Sitters Club 10-episode first season.
As I was talking with a friend about it -- she, like me, read way more BSC than Sweet Valley while growing up -- I ended up declaiming:
Sweet Valley is about identity (this tight, exclusive unit of two twins) and Babysitters Club is about labor and an ever-expanding coalition (not to mention a worker-owned co-op) that expands across race, age, and gender. SV is to BSC as Star Wars is to Star Trek.
As I was talking with a friend about it -- she, like me, read way more BSC than Sweet Valley while growing up -- I ended up declaiming:
Sweet Valley is about identity (this tight, exclusive unit of two twins) and Babysitters Club is about labor and an ever-expanding coalition (not to mention a worker-owned co-op) that expands across race, age, and gender. SV is to BSC as Star Wars is to Star Trek.
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Date: 2020-08-02 06:23 pm (UTC)Babysitters' Club As Labor/Care Work Politics
The "Babysitters Club" book (and now TV) series is about labor -- specifically a worker-owned cooperative of care workers -- and an ever-expanding coalition (not to mention a worker-owned co-op) that expands across race, age, and gender. It stands in contrast with adventure and procedural stories like "Nancy Drew" and school/social serials like "Sweet Valley". Let's talk about strikes, worker solidarity, care work issues, and related topics the books and show delve into.
Thanks for the suggestion!
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Date: 2020-08-03 12:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-08-03 01:39 pm (UTC)