<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">So much this, Camille.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 5, 2020, at 6:40 PM, Camille E. Acey <<a href="mailto:connect@camilleacey.com" class="">connect@camilleacey.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" class=""><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" class="">
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0" class=""><p class=""><em class="">The end of the world has never been quite so simple a mythos for women, likely because most of us know that when social structures crack and shatter, what happens isn’t an instant reversion to muscular state-of-naturism. What happens is that women and carers of all genders quietly exhaust themselves filling in the gaps, trying to save as many people as possible from physical and mental collapse. The people on the front line are not fighters. They are healers and carers. The very people whose work is rarely paid in proportion to its importance are the ones we really need when the dung hits the Dyson. Nurses, doctors, cleaners, drivers. Emotional and domestic labor have never been part of the grand story men have told themselves about the destiny of the species—not even when they imagine its grave.</em></p>
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<div class="body body__container article__body grid-layout__content grid--item"><p class=""><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-apocalypse-myths/" class="">https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-apocalypse-myths/</a></p><p class="">-- </p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Camille E. Acey</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""> <a href="http://camilleacey.com/" class="">http://camilleacey.com</a></span></div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><em class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." - </span></em><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Audre Lorde</span></div>
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