Child care
Social Isolation is also Dangerous: The Increasing Loneliness of Turkish Women During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Merve Celtikci
Why do women bear the greatest costs of social isolation? In Turkey, the “stay home” lockdown measures have reinforced gender norms while also cutting off women from social networks, both strong (family and close friends) and weak (neighbors, coworkers) ties.
Istanbul, Turkey
20 enero 2021
Care, Covid 19 and Domestic Work in Latin America: An Opportunity for Recognition
Tallulah Lines and Jean Grugel
Quintana Roo, Mexico
10 diciembre 2020
Nanny Solidarity Now: The Nanny Regulation Movement as Racialized Class War
Veronica Deutsch
The regulation movement is led entirely by white British women, yet migrant workers make up at least 47% of the sector. These groups benefit from implicitly racist and classist structures by centering themselves as the “qualified” option.
London, UK
4 noviembre 2020
March to September: A Father’s Story
Abuajela Elatrsh and Benjamin Morgan
London, UK
30 octubre 2020
A Bonding Stitch: In Honour of the Seamstresses of Toronto
Norin Taj
During the initial weeks of the pandemic, as the world was coping with looming anxieties and uncertain futures, many women, in their homes and communities, sewed hundreds of face masks to keep their communities safe. This poem, in Urdu and English, is for these unsung heroes.
Toronto, Canada
22 octubre 2020
Solidarity, Care and Despair
Robyn Fawcett
Lichfield, United Kingdom
14 octubre 2020
“Support Our Students”: Class Aspiration, Online Education and COVID-19
Jagriti Gangopadhyay
Manipal, India
24 septiembre 2020
“Our physical and mental health are most affected by our material conditions”: The Struggle of Frontline Health Workers in India
Sanjana Santosh
Facing the pressure to do multiple surveys along with their routine work, frontline health workers in India wonder why the collected data is so valued while their labour and time congealed within the data remain undervalued.
Thane, India
10 septiembre 2020
Altered Routines, Diminished Solidarity and Invisibility: The Experience of Live-in ‘Child Nurses’ During the Pandemic
Deepali Aparajita Dungdung
None of these women have left their workspaces since the pandemic began. Normally they would travel to meet their friends on the non-working Sundays. Unfortunately, the pandemic has ceased the Sunday gatherings, curtailing further these women’s opportunity for solidarity.
Ranchi, India
8 septiembre 2020
VIRAL CARE: Spectacles of Care as a Substitute for Domestic Workers’ Rights
Simiran Lalvani and Sanjana Santosh
This analysis of comedic content posted on social media during the pandemic examines employer's expressions of gratitude towards working class domestic workers in India, and asks how it might translate in terms of providing job security, salary and working conditions.
Mumbai, India
25 agosto 2020
The Struggle of Phd Mothers During Covid-19: A View from Singapore
Anonymous
Singapore, Singapore
19 agosto 2020
Social Welfare Strike: A Call to Action from the Academy
Semassa Boko
Irvine, USA
13 agosto 2020
Una breve introducción a CUIDAR: Estudio sobre tiempos, formas, y espacios de cuidado en casa durante la pandemia
Sebastian Rojas Navarro, Maria-Alejandra Energici, Nicolas Schongut-Grollmus, Samanta Alarcon Arcos
Santiago, Chile
4 agosto 2020
CUIDAR means CARE : A study about times, forms, and spaces of care within the household during the pandemic
Sebastian Rojas Navarro, Maria-Alejandra Energici, Nicolas Schongut-Grollmus, Samanta Alarcon Arcos
Santiago, Chile
4 agosto 2020
COVID-19: An Illustrated Journal
Iulia Pascu
Bruxelles, Belgium
3 agosto 2020
Nannies in Lockdown: Virtue, Power, and the Value of Women’s Work
Veronica Deutsch
Despite their perceived lack of value, during the Coronavirus pandemic nannies are being framed as an essential and urgent service. If these nannies and their ‘unskilled’ labour are an economic necessity, perhaps fair remuneration for hazardous work shouldn’t be off the table.
London, UK
20 julio 2020
Testimonies of Confinement: Women and Men in Academia
BCNUEJ - Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice & Sustainability
Barcelona, Spain
16 julio 2020
THE DIGNITY OF TIME: CONTRADICTIONS OF WORK AND CARE FOR MIDDLE CLASS WORKING MOTHERS.
Serena Brigidi, Fabiola Mancinelli, Juan M. Leyva-Moral, Marta Ausona Bieto
Barcelona, Spain
8 julio 2020
RISK: CARE: RESPONSIBILITY: SOLIDARITY? Essential Labour during the Covid-19 Pandemic in India
Gayatri Nair, Paro Mishra and Anindita Majumdar
New Delhi, India
2 julio 2020
Conversations with Krishna: Everyday Musings of a Child Growing Up in Pandemic Times
Radhika Govinda
Edinburgh, Scotland
25 junio 2020
