Mutual aid networks

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

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

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.

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.

“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.

Better Together
Melike Sema Alisan

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

The Gift of Sharing: Food Provision During the Covid-19 Lockdown in the UK
Gayle Letherby
L’inconfort et la détresse adoucis par la solidarité / Discomfort and Distress Softened by Solidarity
Josiane Boulad-Ayoub
COVID-19, Racialisation and Care: Nepali Healthcare Practitioners’ Frontline Experience
Radha Adhikari

The Method of Telegrammatic Correspondence: A Digital Mode of Inquiry during ‘Lockdown’
Tomás Sánchez Criado and Adolfo Estalella

Caring for Country: Migrant Workers and Affective Work in India
Maansi Parpiani
Questioning the “New Normal” of the Filipino State: A Call for Government Responsibility During the Pandemic
Gretchen Abuso
In time of social distance
William Wall