Selected Writing
Public Home Economics, household life, and the work of home.
This is a curated home for durable public writing that represents what I study, teach, and think about as a Public Home Economist.
01 Purpose
A professional collection, not a general blog.
This collection will grow through settled, self-contained pieces useful to readers and to institutions evaluating my work for speaking, teaching, workshops, panels, partnerships, consulting, or media participation.
Care has always required labor. This essay examines the history, expectations, and household systems behind the illusion that it should be effortless.
Read the essayThe Labor Behind the Standard
By Danita Platt
Domestic standards carry the histories of the labor that produced them. This essay examines those inherited expectations and what changes when the work comes back into view.
Read the essayProfessional work