Family Wage — Comparable Worth

This entry examines the terms family wage and comparable worth as haunted by a gender binary in the form of five acts. In the first act, it imagines what a diorama of each term might look like in a museum. It then imagines an American museum, followed by an act in which activists protest to decolonize the museum. It concludes with a commitment to continue to honor our ancestors and pass on our own stories, along with creating new sacred evidence of our ways of knowing and being that we will create and leave for our future kin. The form of the entry is a fitting homage to Haraway’s classic study of museum dioramas in Primate Visions.