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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.

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

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

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

COVID-19 & Touch
Mickey Vallee

Canadian CareMongering: Exploring the Complexities and Centrality of Community Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Amy Kipp & Roberta Hawkins

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.

Communion
Julia Hartline

Care, Covid 19 and Domestic Work in Latin America: An Opportunity for Recognition
Tallulah Lines and Jean Grugel

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?

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.

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

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.
March to September: A Father’s Story
Abuajela Elatrsh and Benjamin Morgan

Caring in Crisis: Medical Internationalism in Cuba
Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams and Mariakarla Nodarse

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.
Exit
Ryan Service

Our Covid – One Trinbagonian’s Rituals of Caution and Recognitions of Worth
Anonymous
Solidarity, Care and Despair
Robyn Fawcett

Mums Need Hugs: The Contradictions of Public Health
Karen Horrocks