Black and Latina Caretakers Are Overworked, Underpaid, and Pushed to the Margins. This New Film Brings them Center Stage.
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AT 10 PM ET TONIGHT ON THE HEELS OF MOTHER’S DAY, PBS IS RELEASING THROUGH THE NIGHT, A DOCUMENTARY THAT DELVES INTO THE “WOMEN’S WORK” BLACK WOMEN & LATINAS SHOULDER.
Celebrating mothers and caretakers doesn’t have to stop when Mother’s Day ends this year. Tonight, tune in to PBS or stream online for a national watch party of Through the Night at 10 pm ET.
The documentary premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and is directed by Loira Limbal, an Afro-Latina working mother. Created by an all-women-of-color crew, Through the Night tells the story “of three working mothers whose lives all intersect at a 24-hour daycare center: a mother working the overnight shift as an essential worker at a hospital; another holding down three jobs just to support her family; and a woman who for over two decades has cared for the children of parents with nowhere else to turn.” This film encompasses the multiple facets of “women’s work” whether it be paid, unpaid, or underpaid; emotional or physical labor; and in or out of the home.
“Child care is necessary for parents—particularly mothers—to work and earn an income, yet it has become an increasingly crushing expense…Over the past two decades, the cost of child care has more than doubled, while wages have remained mostly stagnant” writes the Center for American Progress in a 2019 report. The disparities are especially prevalent for Black mothers, who “are more likely to be in the labor force than mothers of any other race.”
“The film is a love letter to single mothers and caregivers. It elevates the voices and stories of women of color who are often invisibilized or pushed into the margins of our society.”
Read more of this story on Essence
Source: Essence
Author: RAYNA REID – DIRECTOR LOIRA LIMBAL