Department of Emotional Labor
We help you help each other
We help you help each other
Sudden layoff? Death in the family? If you are dealing with an Unexpected Emotional Upheaval and need additional support, fill out an Emergency Emotional Labor Requisition form and the Department will notify your network and help guide you through your difficult time.
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If you believe you or someone you know has been denied proper compensation, you may file a complaint by mail or in person.
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We're looking for experienced providers of emotional labor to help keep the Department running smoothly. Apply today!
View Open Positions →The Department of Emotional Labor is here to help facilitate communication and clarity between individuals, enforce regulations on emotional labor to keep you safe and healthy, and provide appropriate resources and guidance.
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Official resources and forms for emotional labor support
For naming, identifying, and processing your want, craving, or desire. Will you take the first step towards your Longing, or will you choose to live with its absence?
For articulating your own needs in a relationship, and what types of care you are most receptive to.
For single-party forgiveness - does not require participation of the accused offending party to complete.
Two-part form: reconciliation requires both parties to agree to resolution (see FORM 4-GV for single-party forgiveness)
For your justified anger and earned pride.
For those seeking finality.
The Department of Emotional Labor was an immersive theater production about a speculative "soft bureaucracy," where emotional labor is protected and regulated the same way as physical labor.
Just like the real-world Department of Labor does provide physical labor, the Department of Emotional Labor does not directly provide emotional labor.
Rather, it exists to facilitate communication and clarity between people, and provide the appropriate resources and structure to do so.
It was initially performed in San Francisco in 2019, then 2020 performances in NYC were indefinitely postponed. Learn more
Written, produced, and created by April Soetarman