Work and life are tightly interconnected, from the exhaustion our bodies may carry into our work time to the work rumination and stress that may follow us home. Meanwhile, common advice aimed at cleaving work and life apart, as by turning off work emails on evenings and weekends, sidesteps the fundamental truth that we bring our whole selves to work, just as we bring our whole selves home. This workshop will offer feminist-informed, inclusive strategies for supporting your own well-being in moments when work and life face off. The speaker will focus in particular on practical approaches to work productivity that aim at making  work work better for you—which means more time and energy for life responsibilities, values, and joys.

Bio: Dr. Alisa B. Lin is an associate professor in the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University. She is also a mom of three who knows exactly how full life can get. Her book We Who Tend: Realistic Productivity for Everyone with a Life outside of Work is under contract with Rutgers University Press. She also authors a Substack newsletter on feminist productivity called The Tending Project.