[Themaintainers] This Is Not the Apocalypse You Were Looking For

[Danny Spitzberg]

I feel called to echo this powerful quote:

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.

On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 8:02 AM Kara Andersen <karalynn.andersen at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So much this, Camille.
>
> On Apr 5, 2020, at 6:40 PM, Camille E. Acey <connect at camilleacey.com>
> wrote:
>
> *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.*
>
> https://www.wired.com/story/coronavirus-apocalypse-myths/
>
> --
> Camille E. Acey
> http://camilleacey.com
>
> *"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and
> that is an act of political warfare." - *Audre Lorde
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