🧵1/10 Whew! I felt this article deep in my soul…
https://twitter.com/chabelih/status/1430938156627595270
🧵2/10 This quote from @oni_blackstock (starts with “In our community…”) especially hit powerfully. I’ve rarely felt my experience of the pandemic articulated with such precision. bit.ly/3DikPP3
https://twitter.com/chabelih/status/1430939288787640325
🧵3/10 Scholars like @JessicaCalarco have done beautiful work describing the key role that US women play as “family health managers” and how the pressure of that role has often translated into vaccine skepticism, etc, especially among White politically conservative women in US
https://twitter.com/WhitneyEpi/status/1401511417640013825
🧵4/10 But the @ChabeliH article explores the another side of these gendered roles:
What happens when that individualized responsibility is channeled outward, further out than one’s family?
What happens when that individualized responsibility is channeled outward, further out than one’s family?
🧵5/10 Native women fighting to keep their elders (cultural and linguistic reservoirs, treasures) safe…Gay men who feel compelled not to let another 🤬 virus ravage their communities…Black & AAPI & Latina daughters & aunties & teachers executing so many community partnerships
🧵6/10 This is the day-in and day-out work I see, that’s been happening over the course of pandemic - sometimes with more institutional and govt support, sometimes with less
🧵7/10 It’s important but mostly uncompensated and publicly ignored work. (They are too busy doing the work to be posturing on Twitter. 😏)
🧵8/10 But it’s not always pretty, and it is definitely not without cost
@oni_blackstock: “It’s almost like we have this burden of having to address and mitigate the distrust that we did not create.”
These (mostly) women are bone-deep exhausted. Proud and effective—but so tired
@oni_blackstock: “It’s almost like we have this burden of having to address and mitigate the distrust that we did not create.”
These (mostly) women are bone-deep exhausted. Proud and effective—but so tired
🧵9/10 And a note to my sisters from White Christian conservative backgrounds, women like @ersmith2016 and so many others, women who just can’t stop sharing the Gospel, earthly consequences be damned:
It’s been so, so hard…
We see you. We love you
Thank you
It’s been so, so hard…
We see you. We love you
Thank you
https://twitter.com/ersmith2016/status/1396572054418247681
🧵 10/10 Anyway I really liked the article
It highlighted a huge part of the US pandemic response that’s been underreported. Yay for good journalism!
HT @DrV_NeoMD
It highlighted a huge part of the US pandemic response that’s been underreported. Yay for good journalism!
HT @DrV_NeoMD
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