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

[Paula Lackie]

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On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 11:32 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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