Domesticity

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

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?

The Lightwell (Boşluk)
Begüm Özden Fırat

The Balcony and our Dreams (Balkon ve Bizim Rüyalar)
Aylin Kuryel
In this new film, Aylin Kuryel brings us into a selection of dreams dreamt during the current coronavirus outbreak. The longings, worries and desires that have been quarantined in the depths of mind come to the surface and interfuse with the sounds, music, applauses & protests.

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.

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

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

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