Open AccessFeminist Scholarly Communities Have Been a Lifeline During the Pandemic
Author(s) -
Karen Griscom
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
aphra behn online
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2157-7129
DOI - 10.5038/2157-7129.11.1.1268
Subject(s) - scholarship , workload , pandemic , balance (ability) , anxiety , sociology , work (physics) , covid-19 , feminism , graduate students , political science , pedagogy , public relations , psychology , gender studies , engineering ethics , media studies , management , engineering , law , medicine , mechanical engineering , disease , pathology , neuroscience , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economics
I teach writing and literature at a community college, and I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate. Because I balance full-time teaching and graduate research, I am accustomed to the intensity of a heavy workload. Still, during this past year, my home and work responsibilities have multiplied and with that so has my anxiety. Stress and lack of time have made it challenging to write and research. However, two feminist organizations have helped me cope and remain hopeful about my scholarship.