Stories

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 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

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.

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.

CUIDAR means CARE : A study about times, forms, and spaces of care within the household during the pandemic
Sebastian Rojas Navarro, Maria-Alejandra Energici, Nicolas Schongut-Grollmus, Samanta Alarcon Arcos

Communion
Julia Hartline

The Lightwell (Boşluk)
Begüm Özden Fırat

Seguridad alimentaria y la pandemia en Cuba: lanzamiento de “Trabajo de Amor”
Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams, Mariakarla Nodarse

Cuidar en tiempos de crisis: ¿Quién es responsable?
Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams, Mariakarla Nodarse

Food Security and the Pandemic in Cuba: Film Release of “Trabajo de Amor”
Sarah Stephens, Justine Williams and Mariakarla Nodarse

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

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
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