TY - JOUR
T1 - A femin… manifesto
T2 - Academic ecologies of care and cure during a global health pandemic
AU - Benozzo, Angelo
AU - Koro, Mirka
AU - Vasquez, Anani
AU - Vitrukh, Mariia
AU - Barbetta, Pietro
AU - Long, Charlton
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - This article is a femin… manifesto for supporting and encouraging academic ecologies of care and cure: it is a collaborative assemblage created by six academics—laborers, white, native American, European, Caucasian, cisgender, neurodivergent, bisexual, gay, and… and… and…—who wrote these reflections during the pandemic events that affected their lives. The cultural artifact, the femin… manifesto, is organized around nine theses, each of which tries to highlight the multiplicity of cares and genders, the challenges, the productive vitality, and the enforced slowness experienced both during lockdown and after it. The paper uses different forms/styles—academic writing, pictures, poems, first-person narratives—which nurture the flow of the presentation of the nine theses. Each thesis ends with a call for action. The femin… manifesto is a performative text which, while opposing the constraints of the COVID-19 emergency, also sees the potential the event offers for caring and curing - both life and our academic lives. Femin… manifesto renders explicit the undecidability of cares and cures and is a call to unite with the aim of resisting the inequalities and vulnerabilities which COVID-19 has exacerbated.
AB - This article is a femin… manifesto for supporting and encouraging academic ecologies of care and cure: it is a collaborative assemblage created by six academics—laborers, white, native American, European, Caucasian, cisgender, neurodivergent, bisexual, gay, and… and… and…—who wrote these reflections during the pandemic events that affected their lives. The cultural artifact, the femin… manifesto, is organized around nine theses, each of which tries to highlight the multiplicity of cares and genders, the challenges, the productive vitality, and the enforced slowness experienced both during lockdown and after it. The paper uses different forms/styles—academic writing, pictures, poems, first-person narratives—which nurture the flow of the presentation of the nine theses. Each thesis ends with a call for action. The femin… manifesto is a performative text which, while opposing the constraints of the COVID-19 emergency, also sees the potential the event offers for caring and curing - both life and our academic lives. Femin… manifesto renders explicit the undecidability of cares and cures and is a call to unite with the aim of resisting the inequalities and vulnerabilities which COVID-19 has exacerbated.
KW - COVID-19
KW - academic labor
KW - care
KW - cure
KW - femin…
KW - manifesto
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U2 - 10.1111/gwao.12762
DO - 10.1111/gwao.12762
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85120425007
SN - 0968-6673
VL - 29
SP - 1236
EP - 1258
JO - Gender, Work and Organization
JF - Gender, Work and Organization
IS - 4
ER -