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Writing multi‐vocal intersectionality in times of crisis
Author(s) -
Einola Katja,
Elkina Anna,
Gao Grace,
Hambleton Jennifer,
KaasilaPakanen AnnaLiisa,
Mandalaki Emmanouela,
Zhang Ling Eleanor,
Pullen Alison
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
gender, work and organization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.159
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1468-0432
pISSN - 0968-6673
DOI - 10.1111/gwao.12577
Subject(s) - witness , embodied cognition , intersectionality , solidarity , anger , sociology , feeling , gender studies , vulnerability (computing) , inequality , aesthetics , social psychology , political science , psychology , politics , law , art , epistemology , mathematical analysis , mathematics , computer science , philosophy , computer security
This article is a multi‐vocal account, a form of writing differently , which captures our changing lives and livelihoods under the present global health crisis. Through the process of writing, we create a safe space to understand how the COVID‐19 pandemic exposes our gendered, intersectional lives. Our writing gives voice to suppressed thoughts and embodied affects as they surface in relation to entrenched structural inequalities where we witness the marginalization of intersectional difference, in our case women, the feminine, and race in academia and neoliberal society. By rendering visible the structural inequalities that have become amplified during the pandemic, and the ways in which these inequalities have affected our everyday lives, we are able to give witness to intersectional differences. Our multi‐vocal embodied text is offered as an emancipatory, affective mobilization of our lives, encompassing feelings of grief, loss, fear, anger, frustration, and vulnerability. This collective piece of writing gives rise to solidarity in a crisis‐stricken world where we choose to live with hope.