Contributions

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.
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
Mental Health and Quarantine: An Excerpt from my Journal
Cecilia Bath

“Support Our Students”: Class Aspiration, Online Education and COVID-19
Jagriti Gangopadhyay

A Plea from Jakarta: May Empathy and Sympathy be the New Normal
Wisnu Adihartono

“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.

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

Know place like home: The 82.3m2 Project
Dan Lovesey

Better Together
Melike Sema Alisan

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.
The Struggle of Phd Mothers During Covid-19: A View from Singapore
Anonymous

Middle-Classness, Delivered: Sociological Reflections on Fast-Food During the Pandemic
Shreya Sen, Tannistha Samanta

Social Welfare Strike: A Call to Action from the Academy
Semassa Boko

Eating Together, Apart – Reflections on the Community Foodscape in Nottingham during the Pandemic
Marsha Smith