Situated Voices 36

Female Workers Who Fight, Bodies that Matter

Performance de Territorio Doméstico en Picnic del barrio. Aquí vivimos, aquí soñamos, ¡aquí nos quedamos! Museo Reina Sofía, 2025

Performance de Territorio Doméstico en Picnic del barrio. Aquí vivimos, aquí soñamos, ¡aquí nos quedamos! Museo Reina Sofía, 2025

Fotografía: Valeria Caballero

Territorio Doméstico is a feminist collective made up of female domestic and care workers who live in the Community of Madrid. They form a cross-border space which responds to a number of urgent problems: defending labour rights for female domestic workers and demanding the regularisation of migrant workers, as well as the right to family reunification, social recognition and the reparation of care debt by institutions.

The collective will provide accompaniment in this encounter by putting forward a cross-sectional round-table discussion centred on professional illnesses suffered by specific collectives of women doing jobs that are predominantly physical, such as care and domestic work and farm work. The aim is to shine a light on the physical and psychological tolls these body-oriented jobs take on the people that do them, in addition to the scant social, legal and healthcare recognition they receive.

Professional illnesses for women are often not recognised as such and are diagnosed simply as common illnesses, and with everything that entails on a legal and administrative level. Furthermore, obtaining sick leave can often become a huge struggle, thereby breaching labour rights.

The Museo Situado assembly convenes to discuss this reality, granting it the space it deserves to collectively call for solutions which respect the rights of all female worker.

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