Emotional Labour is Real

Friday April 30, 2021

How does EMOTIONAL LABOUR show up in your creative work and life?

By design this was a supportive and confidential space for this topic, that was facilitated by Creatives Empowered.

Emotional Labour is a term from sociologist Dr. Arlie Hochschild’s 1983 book The Managed Heart, and describes having to “induce or suppress feeling in order to sustain the outward countenance that produces the proper state of mind in others.”

In essence, the need one feels to suppress their own emotions – i.e. while at work.

For racialized bodies, emotional labour becomes a very real experience we endure to protect ourselves, while often being expected to educate others on racism.

This was a free, open and safe conversation for artists + creatives who are Black, Indigenous and People of Colour to discuss emotional labour and its impacts.

This was an opportunity to share, to listen, to understand and to recognize that we are not alone in our experiences.

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