Hello and welcome! I go by Ellie (she/her). I am a queer, neurodivergent academic cis woman interested in all things “domestic”. I am in my later-30s, white, and I currently live in a major urban centre.
To make it explicit: I take an anti-racist, anti-heteronormative, feminist, disability justice-centred, anti-oppressive worldview. And because “feminist” is sometimes used in ways I do not align with: I want to make it clear that I am pro trans, and pro sex work (this is not a space for TERFs or SWERFs). I aim to challenge colonial perspectives and practices of normalization, while also recognizing and acknowledging my complicity in ongoing settler colonialism as an uninvited white settler on the territories I currently reside on on Turtle Island. This does not necessarily mean that everything I post here will be overtly political (it’s just as likely to include recipes as social justice-oriented academic deep dives), but it is important to me to state upfront that these are the kinds of principles I try to live by. It can often take a lot of work to parse out if folks in the domestic/homestead/green living/homemaking/family-oriented blogging and social media sphere are of the tradwives and/or crunchy-to-alt-right-pipeline persuasion, so I figured I’d just lay it all out upfront.
This blog emerges at the intersections of my academic and personal interests. As mentioned, family, home, and domesticity have increasingly come to be associated with conservatism, anti-feminism, and in some cases (tradwives/tradlife) the alt-right and white supremacy. I am interested in all the ways more radical approaches to family and home can be progressive, anti-capitalist, and rooted in care and community.
I’m not sure what exactly this blog will look like yet. I expect an eclectic mix of academic musings, pop culture, and domestic projects. Or it might end up morphing into something else entirely. Thanks for joining me, and welcome!
Queer Domesticity 