Special Issue on Carework and Writing during COVID: Part II, Table of Contents
Edited by Ruth Osorio (Old Dominion University), Vyshali Manivannan (Pace University - Pleasantville), and Jessie Male (University of Pittsburgh)
*All pieces indicated by an asterisk contain a content warning.
We sorted the pieces into the categories we observed as we prepared for this issue, with feedback from the authors. You’ll notice that some pieces appear in more than one category: that’s because it’s impossible for many of our writers to boil their identities or experiences into just one theme. Each piece begins with content notes, so you can prioritize your comfort when navigating.
Queer Intimacies and Radical Kinship During Isolation
- Leah Beth Lewis, "Academic/Human: On Learning Failure"
- Elkie Burnside, "Survival is in the Details: The Journey of One Queer Scholar During Early COVID | 2020-2021 (A Webtext)"
- Jolivette Mecenas, "Come Out and Dance" *
- Bethany Meadows, "Survival and Surviving the Certain Uncertainties"
- Calley Marotta, "T is for Traci: A Letter to Our Daycare Provider" *
- Beth Buyserie, "Writing as Carework: Healing My Writing, Healing Myself"
Homeland and Belonging in the Face of Anti-AAPI Hate
- Chen Chen, "Remembering 2020-2021: A Reflection on Care and Love" *
- Marijel (Maggie) Melo, "On Practicing Invisibility" *
- Amy J. Wan, "On March 17" *
Navigating Loss and Grief
- Cindy Tekobbe, "The Collaborative Composition of Grief" *
- Rachel Donegan, "The Last Act of Love: Death and Writing During Covid" *
- Hannah Saunders, "Trash Can Toast" *
- Morgan Hanson, "Writing for a Baby: Becoming 'Paper Pregnant' " *
- Amanda Andersen, "Recipe for dealing with a global pandemic when you’re grieving and feeling hurt" *
- Jessica Jorgenson Borchert and Brooke Kowalke, "Collapsed Time: Stories of Two Academic Caregivers and a Call to Action" *
- Raquel L. DeLeon, "The Writer Heals and Blooms in the Midst of a Storm" *
- Nancy Effinger Wilson, "Grieving Remotely" *
- Christopher Sean Harris, Ronnese Glover, Dayrin Flores, Shannon Thayer Miller, Michael Dieguez, "Covid Diaries: A Multi-Generational Account of Literacy, Writing, Family, and Carework During the Covid-19 Pandemic" *
- Jessica Bannon, "Writing Time" *
- Nancy Fox (Edele), "Teaching Uncertainty: The Flywheel"
Parenting as (Im)possibility in Impossible Circumstances
- Morgan Hanson, "Writing for a Baby: Becoming 'Paper Pregnant' " *
- Jessica Jorgenson Borchert and Brooke Kowalke, "Collapsed Time: Stories of Two Academic Caregivers and a Call to Action" *
- Catherine C. Braun, "Parenting in the Time of COVID-19: The Cacophony"
- Ebony Lumumba, "Starved for Color”: Work, Mothering, & COVID"
- Lesley Erin Bartlett, "Writing through/as Emergency: Seeking, Performing, and Accepting Care in Semi-Private Genres" *
- Ariel Mae Lambe, "Writing Madness from the Rocking Chair"
- Calley Marotta, "T is for Traci: A Letter to Our Daycare Provider" *
- Kasen Christensen, "Still Kicking"
- Marisa Klages-Bombich, "Woolf Still Holds Up…."
- Brittany Coomes, "Who Cares for Me? A Reflection of Burnout During the Time of Covid"
- Elise Green, "Motherhood and Multimodality during the Pandemic: Writing is a Lifeline"
- Vanessa Sohan, "PB&J"
- Rachel O’Donnell, "Quarantine Mothering, Teaching, Teeth"
- Alysa Robin, "Arachnid"
Creatively Caring for Self, Others, and Place
- Michelle LaFrance, "I Walk Among the Living and the Dead" *
- Hannah Saunders, "Trash Can Toast" *
- Christopher Sean Harris, Ronnese Glover, Dayrin Flores, Shannon Thayer Miller, Michael Dieguez, "Covid Diaries: A Multi-Generational Account of Literacy, Writing, Family, and Carework During the Covid-19 Pandemic" *
- Sarah Stoller, "On Writing Again" *
- Laura Bolin Carroll, "Dialogic Imagining"
- Jonathan L. Bradshaw, "Farming as Carework; or, Composting Careers"
- Nicole Hancock, "A Passive Aggressive Email Exchange in the Time of Covid"
- Victoria L. Braegger, "Writing at the Intersection of Living in the Pandemic and Living with an Autoimmune Disease" *
- Theresa Donofrio, "On Writing (and Not Writing) 'Out of the Office'"
- Shannon Walters, "What I Would Have Written" *
- Luciana M. Herman, "Carework and COVID-19: Rhetoric in (Un)Conventional Spaces"
- Sidouane. L. Patcha, "Quarantine, Care Work and Re-mixed Schooling"
- Vivien Lunsford, Alex Lunsford, and Scott Lunsford, "A Random(ized) Podcast"
- April Conway, "Creative Caretaking for Oneself"
- Franny Howes, "Oh Shit I’m in a Quaranzine" + Zine
- Kathryn Perry, "We’re Doing It!"
- Marijel (Maggie) Melo, "On Practicing Invisibility" *
- Amelia Chesley, "daily writings"
Revisionings of Teaching, Facilitation, and Professional Leadership
- Cindy Tekobbe, "The Collaborative Composition of Grief" *
- Ebony Lumumba, "Starved for Color”: Work, Mothering, & COVID"
- Laura Bolin Carroll, "Dialogic Imagining"
- Kasen Christensen, "Still Kicking"
- Vivien Lunsford, Alex Lunsford, and Scott Lunsford, "A Random(ized) Podcast"
- Elissa Myers, "From Texas to Queens and Back Again: A Disabled Pandemic Educator’s Journey"
- Peaches Hash, "Metaphoric Images as Carework: Teaching Writing Courses During the Pandemic"
- Holly Hassel and Julie Lindquist, "Professional Leadership As Rhetorical Carework: Service and Fast Rhetoric in the Digital Pandemic"
- K. Shannon Howard, "Lucy in the Sky Without Diamonds: Sobriety and Classic Rock During the Pandemic" *
- Khadidja Belhadi & Lisya Seloni, "Humanizing doctoral mentorship during the pandemic: Transnational women creating feminist spaces through rhetorical listening and reflexivity"
- MiSun Bishop, "Journaling as a Tool for Self-Care and Identity Formation: My Epilepsy Notebook"
- Nancy Fox (Edele), "Teaching Uncertainty: The Flywheel"
Visual, Sonic, Tactile, Interactive Texts as Self- and Collective Care
- Elkie Burnside, "Survival is in the Details: The Journey of One Queer Scholar During Early COVID | 2020-2021 (A Webtext)"
- Jolivette Mecenas, "Come Out and Dance" *
- Rachel Donegan, "The Last Act of Love: Death and Writing During Covid" *
- Morgan Hanson, "Writing for a Baby: Becoming 'Paper Pregnant' " *
- Jessica Bannon, "Writing Time" *
- Sidouane. L. Patcha, "Quarantine, Care Work and Re-mixed Schooling"
- April Conway, "Creative Caretaking for Oneself"
- Rachel O’Donnell, "Quarantine Mothering, Teaching, Teeth"
- Peaches Hash, "Metaphoric Images as Carework: Teaching Writing Courses During the Pandemic"
- Sophia Buckner, "Scraps from a Pandemic"
- Joanna E. Sanchez-Avila, "Snail Mail Love During COVID-19: Building Community and Sustaining Social Kinships in Quarantine"
- Franny Howes, "Oh Shit I’m in a Quaranzine" + Zine
- Amanda Andersen (Text/Timeline) and Elizabeth Chamberlain (Coder/Illustrator), "Borders & Boundaries: North-South Relations Mapped on My Body Across Time"
- Vanessa Sohan, "PB&J"
- Vivien Lunsford, Alex Lunsford, and Scott Lunsford, "A Random(ized) Podcast"
- Catherine C. Braun, "Parenting in the Time of COVID-19: The Cacophony"
Place-Making and Space-Taking on Social Media
- Raquel L. DeLeon, "The Writer Heals and Blooms in the Midst of a Storm" *
- Nancy Effinger Wilson, "Grieving Remotely" *
- Vivien Lunsford, Alex Lunsford, and Scott Lunsford, "A Random(ized) Podcast"
- Amelia Chesley, "daily writings"
- Caitlin Ray, "A Year of Worry: A Collection of Advocacy Writings from 2020-2021"
- Ariel Mae Lambe, "Writing Madness from the Rocking Chair"
Reflecting on Academic (Over)work and/or Precarity
- Hannah Saunders, "Trash Can Toast" *
- Sarah Stoller, "On Writing Again" *
- Laura Bolin Carroll, "Dialogic Imagining"
- Nicole Hancock, "A Passive Aggressive Email Exchange in the Time of Covid"
- Victoria L. Braegger, "Writing at the Intersection of Living in the Pandemic and Living with an Autoimmune Disease" *
- Hannah L. Stevens, "Numbers in the Life of a PhD Student Thought about on a Random Wednesday"
- Ashton Ray, Ally Whiting, Emily Wieman, Lilith Osburn-Cole, Shelby Ramsey, Cindy Tekobbe, "We Are Too Tired to Give This a Title" *
- Amanda L. Shoaf, "Notes on Graduate Assistantship-ing From Home: A COVID-19 Poem" + Audio
- Amanda Andersen (Text/Timeline) and Elizabeth Chamberlain (Coder/Illustrator), "Borders & Boundaries: North-South Relations Mapped on My Body Across Time"
- Alysa Robin, "Arachnid"
- Michelle LaFrance, "I Walk Among the Living and the Dead" *
- Mara Lee Grayson, "Response from Dean Following Discrimination Complaint: An Erasure Poem"
Transnationalism and Inhabiting Borderlands During the Pandemic
- Chen Chen, "Remembering 2020-2021: A Reflection on Care and Love" *
- Joanna E. Sanchez-Avila, "Snail Mail Love During COVID-19: Building Community and Sustaining Social Kinships in Quarantine"
- Alex Way, "Transnational Carework in the Time of COVID-19"
- Khadidja Belhadi & Lisya Seloni, "Humanizing doctoral mentorship during the pandemic: Transnational women creating feminist spaces through rhetorical listening and reflexivity"
- Amanda Andersen (Text/Timeline) and Elizabeth Chamberlain (Coder/Illustrator), "Borders & Boundaries: North-South Relations Mapped on My Body Across Time"
Disability, Illness, and Survival (When the World Doesn’t Want You To)
- Leah Beth Lewis, "Academic/Human: On Learning Failure"
- Bethany Meadows, "Survival and Surviving the Certain Uncertainties"
- Ariel Mae Lambe, "Writing Madness from the Rocking Chair"
- Michelle LaFrance, "I Walk Among the Living and the Dead" *
- Sarah Stoller, "On Writing Again" *
- Victoria L. Braegger, "Writing at the Intersection of Living in the Pandemic and Living with an Autoimmune Disease" *
- Elissa Myers, "From Texas to Queens and Back Again: A Disabled Pandemic Educator’s Journey"
- K. Shannon Howard, "Lucy in the Sky Without Diamonds: Sobriety and Classic Rock During the Pandemic" *
- Caitlin Ray, "A Year of Worry: A Collection of Advocacy Writings from 2020-2021"
- Olivia Wood, "It Cost $1,700 To Feel Like I’m Allowed to Write this Essay"
- Chimine Arfuso, "Tick Tok (No Time to Be a Crip)"
- Alex Way, "Transnational Carework in the Time of COVID-19"
- Raquel L. DeLeon, "The Writer Heals and Blooms in the Midst of a Storm" *
- MiSun Bishop, "Journaling as a Tool for Self-Care and Identity Formation: My Epilepsy Notebook"
- Beth Buyserie, "Writing as Carework: Healing My Writing, Healing Myself"
BIPOC Perspectives on Labor and Love during COVID
- Jolivette Mecenas, "Come Out and Dance" *
- Chen Chen, "Remembering 2020-2021: A Reflection on Care and Love" *
- Marijel (Maggie) Melo, "On Practicing Invisibility" *
- Amy J. Wan, "On March 17" *
- Raquel L. DeLeon, "The Writer Heals and Blooms in the Midst of a Storm" *
- Christopher Sean Harris, Ronnese Glover, Dayrin Flores, Shannon Thayer Miller, Michael Dieguez, "Covid Diaries: A Multi-Generational Account of Literacy, Writing, Family, and Carework During the Covid-19 Pandemic" *
- Ebony Lumumba, "Starved for Color”: Work, Mothering, & COVID"
- Joanna E. Sanchez-Avila, "Snail Mail Love During COVID-19: Building Community and Sustaining Social Kinships in Quarantine"
- Chimine Arfuso, "Tick Tok (No Time to Be a Crip)"
- Amanda Andersen (Text/Timeline) and Elizabeth Chamberlain (Coder/Illustrator), "Borders & Boundaries: North-South Relations Mapped on My Body Across Time"
Somewhere in Between: Grad Student Perspectives
- Sarah Stoller, "On Writing Again" *
- Ashton Ray, Ally Whiting, Emily Wieman, Lilith Osburn-Cole, Shelby Ramsey, Cindy Tekobbe, "We Are Too Tired to Give This a Title" *
- Hannah L. Stevens, "Numbers in the Life of a PhD Student Thought about on a Random Wednesday"
- Sophia Buckner, "Scraps from a Pandemic"
- Hannah Saunders, "Trash Can Toast" *
- Nicole Hancock, "A Passive Aggressive Email Exchange in the Time of Covid"
- Victoria L. Braegger, "Writing at the Intersection of Living in the Pandemic and Living with an Autoimmune Disease"
- Joanna E. Sanchez-Avila, "Snail Mail Love During COVID-19: Building Community and Sustaining Social Kinships in Quarantine"
- Kasen Christensen, "Still Kicking"
- Alex Way, "Transnational Carework in the Time of COVID-19"
- Amanda L. Shoaf, "Notes on Graduate Assistantship-ing From Home: A COVID-19 Poem" + Audio
- Raquel L. DeLeon, "The Writer Heals and Blooms in the Midst of a Storm" *
- Khadidja Belhadi & Lisya Seloni, "Humanizing doctoral mentorship during the pandemic: Transnational women creating feminist spaces through rhetorical listening and reflexivity"
- Olivia Wood, "It Cost $1,700 To Feel Like I’m Allowed to Write this Essay"
- Luciana M. Herman, "Carework and COVID-19: Rhetoric in (Un)Conventional Spaces"
Writing the Process of Writing
- Bethany Meadows, "Survival and Surviving the Certain Uncertainties"
- Catherine C. Braun, "Parenting in the Time of COVID-19: The Cacophony"
- Michelle LaFrance, "I Walk Among the Living and the Dead" *
- Jessica Bannon, "Writing Time" *
- Laura Bolin Carroll, "Dialogic Imagining"
- Lesley Erin Bartlett, "Writing through/as Emergency: Seeking, Performing, and Accepting Care in Semi-Private Genres" *
- Jonathan L. Bradshaw, "Farming as Carework; or, Composting Careers"
- Theresa Donofrio, "On Writing (and Not Writing) 'Out of the Office'"
- Shannon Walters, "What I Would Have Written" *
- Marisa Klages-Bombich, "Woolf Still Holds Up…."
- Vivien Lunsford, Alex Lunsford, and Scott Lunsford, "A Random(ized) Podcast"
- Elise Green, "Motherhood and Multimodality during the Pandemic: Writing is a Lifeline"
- Kathryn Perry, "We’re Doing It!"
- Sophia Buckner, "Scraps from a Pandemic"
- Amelia Chesley, "daily writings"
- Hannah L. Stevens, "Numbers in the Life of a PhD Student Thought about on a Random Wednesday"
- Jenn Fishman, Stephanie Kerschbaum, Sharon Mitchler, Debra Hawhee, Katie Gindlesparger, Sarah Singer, Jess Restaino, & Amy J. Wan, "Showing Up and Eking Out"
- MiSun Bishop, "Journaling as a Tool for Self-Care and Identity Formation: My Epilepsy Notebook"
Forging Communal Ties Through Collaborative Writing
- Christopher Sean Harris, Ronnese Glover, Dayrin Flores, Shannon Thayer Miller, Michael Dieguez, "Covid Diaries: A Multi-Generational Account of Literacy, Writing, Family, and Carework During the Covid-19 Pandemic" *
- Holly Hassel and Julie Lindquist, "Professional Leadership As Rhetorical Carework: Service and Fast Rhetoric in the Digital Pandemic"
- Jenn Fishman, Stephanie Kerschbaum, Sharon Mitchler, Debra Hawhee, Katie Gindlesparger, Sarah Singer, Jess Restaino, & Amy J. Wan, "Showing Up and Eking Out"
- Ashton Ray, Ally Whiting, Emily Wieman, Lilith Osburn-Cole, Shelby Ramsey, Cindy Tekobbe, "We Are Too Tired to Give This a Title" *
- Khadidja Belhadi & Lisya Seloni, "Humanizing doctoral mentorship during the pandemic: Transnational women creating feminist spaces through rhetorical listening and reflexivity"
- Nancy Fox (Edele), "Teaching Uncertainty: The Flywheel"
Reflecting on and Refusing Racial and/or Gender Inequity
- Shannon Walters, "What I Would Have Written" *
- Marisa Klages-Bombich, "Woolf Still Holds Up…."
- Brittany Coomes, "Who Cares for Me? A Reflection of Burnout During the Time of Covid"
- Elise Green, "Motherhood and Multimodality during the Pandemic: Writing is a Lifeline"
- Holly Hassel and Julie Lindquist, "Professional Leadership As Rhetorical Carework: Service and Fast Rhetoric in the Digital Pandemic"
- Mara Lee Grayson, "Response from Dean Following Discrimination Complaint: An Erasure Poem"
- Megan McIntyre, "This is the email I wanted to write." *
- Amanda L. Shoaf, "Notes on Graduate Assistantship-ing From Home: A COVID-19 Poem" + Audio
- Alysa Robin,"Arachnid"
*All pieces indicated by an asterisk contain a content warning.