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

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.

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

Cuidar en tiempos de crisis: Internacionalismo médico en Cuba
Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams, Mariakarla Nodarse

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.

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.

Take Me Back to the Old World
Earl Carlo Guevarra

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

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

Caring for Country: Migrant Workers and Affective Work in India
Maansi Parpiani
The Blackbirds Sing
Louise A. Hart

Can Covid 19 be a Game-Changer? Those Who Serve on the Frontline and Servant Loyalty during the Indian Mutiny of 1857
Shalini Grover
A comparative account of the current Covid pandemic & the Indian Mutiny of 1857; what these events have in common is gender and a crisis in social reproduction. Quarantine diaries and mutiny diaries bring us to historical cross-roads for re-evaluating class-gender-race-caste.