When you’re walking through the grocery store, you’ve probably seen there are more “natural” or “green” cleaning and personal care products than ever before. In the news we’re seeing big brands (like Target and Tide) are trying to get in on the shift that others (like Seventh Generation and Method) have been pushing for years.
Yes, we want immigrants. We also need them.
Trump wants to send immigrants from the border to Sanctuary Cities? Finally! After all, we’ve been lobbying, protesting, and organizing to put an end to the cruel and inhumane detention centers at the southern border. Please, we’ve said, let these exhausted, terrorized refugees and migrants come join the many generations who’ve come here to flee
Have you had “the talk?”

Summer is coming! There’s still snow on the ground in many parts of New York, but families here are already getting a head start on one very important part of their summer plans: childcare. When I ask Lee, a mother of two school-age kids who works full time and employs a nanny for ten hours
Family caregiving at home is great, until it isn’t

Tears well up into Bill Pelter’s eyes talking about his parents and how much he worried about them: “You can have a sense of it from the outside, but until it is your family, you really don’t how it feels. It cuts you to the bone. You can’t shake it from your mind, wondering if
Q & A: Meet the fast & fierce new Philadelphia chapter!

When Amy Cohen joined Hand in Hand, we were thrilled to have her experience and guidance for our #SanctuaryHomes campaign, an urgent and intense response to the anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies that were threatening immigrant communities everywhere, meaning it affected much of the domestic workforce as well. But none of us—least of all Amy—could pass
Book Alert: Memoir of a Mother and Maid
We haven’t had a chance to read Stephanie Land’s memoir, Maid, yet, but its full-page review in this past weekend’s New York Times Book Review by Emily Cooke got us plenty excited. Cooke’s opening lines get right to the deep dark heart of domestic work–the work in the home that makes all other work possible. “I’m not your
February Roundup: Red carpets & bank breakups
Special guests at the Oscars: Domestic workers from NDWA & beyond dressed for the red carpet. Take action **BREAKING** Your families are helping immigrant families Victory! JP Morgan Chase decided to stop financing private prisons that keep immigrant families separated. Congratulations to everyone who joined us in this fight for over the past year. All
How to Host an Oscar Party with a Roma Twist

My friends and I have a longstanding tradition of having potluck dinner parties to watch the Oscars together. There are two must-have elements: dishes with punny names inspired by the nominees, and a one dollar buy-in for a ballot. The person who guesses the most wins correctly takes home the pot. For Roma, I’d suggest
Our Homes, Seen Through Roma’s Lens

by Gayle Kirshenbaum There’s a scene in the Oscar-nominated film Roma, when Cleo, a housekeeper and nanny who has been scrubbing laundry on the rooftop of a house in Mexico City, stops what she’s doing to lie down in the sun next to one of the boys she cares for. The boy, miffed after a fight
3 ways Roma is surprisingly relevant today

The Roma hype is real: This movie is rightly being talked about for its stunning black and white cinematography, its moving, naturalistic storytelling, and the incredible lead, the character Cleo (an Oscar-nominated performance by first-time actress Yalitza Aparicio, a Mexican woman of indigenous descent). While the black & white look and the subtitles may make