For the past couple of years, I’ve been collecting links and information to share with my network. The content broadly falls into four categories — Dementia Care, Gender Expansive Identities, Academic, and COVID-19 — though tangents and overlaps abound. Here I share some of them to help the newsletter be easy to find and share.
Caregivers can give you all the evidence you need: people do not care about care.
made it really hard to tell when I “finished” grad school and when I “started” being a community researcher, but in order to streamline my networks a little, I’ve created a newsletter for my colleagues and friends. Since the first one is all-encompassing, I figured I may as well share it here, too.
Isolation, worry, boredom, disappointment, and hopelessness are not new to many caregivers, so how do we work around them?
Something I’m seeing (and personally struggling with) is that a lot of people who took the pandemic seriously (whether from the start or from learning the hard way) are being expected to start to make exceptions, or relax all at once, or just “trust” other people wholly. But brains don’t work that way. Brains adapt […]
We are all long-distance caregivers now.
Greetings. We’re on Day 34 of isolation here. This is when a lot of those initial intentions and back-up plans start falling apart and you start to wonder what is even the point of making plans. Although the answers are not universal, please know that you are asking the right questions. It might surprise you, […]
To my surprise and relief, it seems people are talking about care. Mutual care, communal care, care of families, care about political constituents, self-care. At least some people are seeing what I’m seeing: We Are All Caregivers Now, and what comes after depends on how well we all care for one another now. In my […]
Have you stopped yet to overthink about this whole mess and ask, individually, what even are we? We, who are not sick, may never get sick, but who nonetheless are practicing social distance in the interest of others? We might never be quarantined and yet we are an active participant, lacking any communal context for […]
Theories of Care 