Quarantine

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

Solace in the Open: Portrait of a Towpath in East London during a Pandemic Lockdown
Manal Massalha
Now that it's lockdown again and children are off school, Iram can have her son join the family for a walk in the marshes during weekdays. Getting some fresh air and being in the open is how they like to start their day.

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

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.

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
Exit
Ryan Service

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