BY KIRAN GREWAL, CLARE HEMMINGS, LETICIA SABSAY AND ALYOSXA TUDOR
We are a group of feminist academics and activists, fed up with the ways in which ‘the household’ has so quickly become normalised as part of the discourse about Covid-19. The four initial blog pieces that kick off this series come out of conversations amongst us about what falls outside and inside ‘the household’ and why we need to be wary of its heteronormative, nation-based, race, class and gender privileged logic. How is it possible that safety continues to be imagined within a family frame that bears so little relationship to the majority experience of labour, migration, displacement, homelessness, and poverty? How does ‘the household’ serve racist, nationalist, sexist and homophobic agendas? We want to carve out a space to respond to the horrors or pleasures of ‘the household’ starting from our own experiences of migration or temporal drag, across, beyond and against borders, and from perspectives that challenge the violence of safety that ‘starts at home’, and/or intervene in it.
Blog posts in the series:
Navigating the Heteronormative Household: Rabenmutter, Racism and Covid-19 – Nadje Al-Ali
Homesickness – Jacob Breslow
Resisting the Violence of Common Sense – Kiran Grewal
Revisiting Virality (After Eve Sedgwick) – Clare Hemmings
Dismantling Home, Building Bridges – Niharika Pandit
Racism: At Home in the UK? – Coretta Phillips
Where Are You? – Leticia Sabsay
Racism, Migratism, Covid – Alyosxa Tudor
Feminist in Lockdown – Kamala Vasuki
On the Edge of Belonging – Xhercis Méndez
Safe? at Home? – Hazel V. Carby
Beyond cities of ‘households’ – the urban life we need – Marguerite van den Berg
Two Days in June (or: Bunkers, Peace Camps, and High Rises) – Alexandra Kokoli
A feminist perspective on the battle over property – Luci Cavallero and Verónica Gago, translated by Liz Mason-Deese
Home as an Occupied Territory: intimacy, occupation, and loss in Kashmir – Samia Mehraj
Screening and writing: Households and (queer) kinship in Covid-19 times – Ulrika Dahl
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