Essays

A Covid-19 Auto-Ethnography: Uncovering where we go from here

Sucharita Iyer

With second waves taking the world by storm, we are faced with the reality that there is nowhere to go but inwards. Sucharita Iyer writes about auto-ethnography emerging as a makeshift methodological mid-point during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mumbai, India 14 abril 2021
Essays

Covid-19 and the Caring of the Working Class: A View from the UK

Mike Haynes

West Midlands, UK 14 abril 2021
Essays

Navigating education and socialisation: Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on students with disabilities in India

Mridula Muralidharan

New Delhi, India 7 abril 2021
Essays

Now More than Ever, we Need to Grow our own Food: A Call to Action

Alternative Estuary

Essex, UK 3 marzo 2021
Essays

COVID-19 & Touch

Mickey Vallee

Calgary, Canada 24 febrero 2021
Essays

Canadian CareMongering: Exploring the Complexities and Centrality of Community Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Amy Kipp & Roberta Hawkins

Guelph, Canada 27 enero 2021
Essays

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
Photos and Art

Communion

Julia Hartline

Calgary, Canada 16 diciembre 2020
Essays

Care, Covid 19 and Domestic Work in Latin America: An Opportunity for Recognition

Tallulah Lines and Jean Grugel

Quintana Roo, Mexico 10 diciembre 2020
Essays

Social oppression, emotional labour and collective care

Pankhuri Agarwal

Resisting social hierarchies and their borders that structure space is no easy work. Besides the possibility of threat and arrest, it takes an emotional and mental toll. In the current political climate, how can we continue to resist social oppression?

Bristol, UK & India 4 diciembre 2020
Essays

Forgotten ‘Heroes’: Frontline Nurses’ Experiences of the Covid-19 Crisis

Radha Adhikari, Sushila Karki-Budhathoki, Kate Weir

The government’s appropriation of health professionals as ‘NHS Heroes’ has been mainly a way of keeping the issue of economic and social justice at bay, without making any meaningful political commitment to improve workers’ long-term wellbeing.

Edinburgh, Scotland 19 noviembre 2020
Essays

Everyday Re-enchantments: Plants and the Labour of Care in the Time of Covid-19

Gavin Maclean

Glasgow, UK 13 noviembre 2020
Essays

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
Letters and Reflections

March to September: A Father’s Story

Abuajela Elatrsh and Benjamin Morgan

London, UK 30 octubre 2020
Essays

Caring in Crisis: Medical Internationalism in Cuba

Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams and Mariakarla Nodarse

Washington DC, US & Cuba 28 octubre 2020
Letters and Reflections

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
Letters and Reflections

Exit

Ryan Service

Banbury, United Kingdom 20 octubre 2020
Letters and Reflections

Our Covid – One Trinbagonian’s Rituals of Caution and Recognitions of Worth

Anonymous

Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean 16 octubre 2020
Letters and Reflections

Solidarity, Care and Despair

Robyn Fawcett

Lichfield, United Kingdom 14 octubre 2020
Letters and Reflections

Mums Need Hugs: The Contradictions of Public Health

Karen Horrocks

South Yorkshire, England 7 octubre 2020
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