Stories
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.
London, UK
5 February 2021
Canadian CareMongering: Exploring the Complexities and Centrality of Community Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Amy Kipp & Roberta Hawkins
Guelph, Canada
27 January 2021
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.
Istanbul, Turkey
20 January 2021
Care, Covid 19 and Domestic Work in Latin America: An Opportunity for Recognition
Tallulah Lines and Jean Grugel
Quintana Roo, Mexico
10 December 2020
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.
Edinburgh, Scotland
19 November 2020
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.
Mumbai, India
25 August 2020
Now More than Ever, we Need to Grow our own Food: A Call to Action
Alternative Estuary
Essex, UK
3 March 2021
COVID-19 & Touch
Mickey Vallee
Calgary, Canada
24 February 2021
Communion
Julia Hartline
Calgary, Canada
16 December 2020
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?
Bristol, UK & India
4 December 2020
The Lightwell (Boşluk)
Begüm Özden Fırat
İstanbul, Turkey
2 December 2020
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.
Amsterdam, Netherlands & Turkey
1 December 2020
Seguridad alimentaria y la pandemia en Cuba: lanzamiento de “Trabajo de Amor”
Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams, Mariakarla Nodarse
Cuba
24 November 2020
Cuidar en tiempos de crisis: ¿Quién es responsable?
Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams, Mariakarla Nodarse
Cuba
17 November 2020
Everyday Re-enchantments: Plants and the Labour of Care in the Time of Covid-19
Gavin Maclean
Glasgow, UK
13 November 2020
Food Security and the Pandemic in Cuba: Film Release of “Trabajo de Amor”
Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams and Mariakarla Nodarse
Washington DC, US & Cuba
10 November 2020
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.
London, UK
4 November 2020
March to September: A Father’s Story
Abuajela Elatrsh and Benjamin Morgan
London, UK
30 October 2020
Cuidar en tiempos de crisis: Internacionalismo médico en Cuba
Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams, Mariakarla Nodarse
Washington DC, US & Cuba
28 October 2020
Caring in Crisis: Medical Internationalism in Cuba
Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams and Mariakarla Nodarse
Washington DC, US & Cuba
28 October 2020
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.
Toronto, Canada
22 October 2020
Exit
Ryan Service
Banbury, United Kingdom
20 October 2020
Our Covid – One Trinbagonian’s Rituals of Caution and Recognitions of Worth
Anonymous
Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean
16 October 2020
Solidarity, Care and Despair
Robyn Fawcett
Lichfield, United Kingdom
14 October 2020
Mums Need Hugs: The Contradictions of Public Health
Karen Horrocks
South Yorkshire, England
7 October 2020
Mental Health and Quarantine: An Excerpt from my Journal
Cecilia Bath
Fortaleza, Brasil
2 October 2020
