THE CAREWORK PROJECT

Care work is climate work Jennifer Case first encountered this message during the pandemic while monitoring her daughter s attempts at virtual learning and trying to keep her toddler from running naked into faculty Zoom meetings The phrase appeared online beside photos of backyard gardens and essential workers in masks offering an unexpected validation caring for others whether children the ill or the earth is vital work Intrigued Case began exploring the connections between personal domestic and ecological care What started as research through the lenses of feminism and economics grew into a larger investigation that touched on environmental thought Indigenous teachings disability studies and the psychology of empathy Along the way Case developed a broader spiritual and ecological awareness that changed how she viewed the act of caring itself Part memoir and part cultural reflection The Carework Project combines intimate storytelling with research interviews and visual art to explore what care means in a time of climate crisis Case shows how caregiving often invisible gendered or undervalued is central to our survival She examines how trauma and burnout affect our ability to connect and how healing can start with the smallest gestures of a