Breathing Spaces: Crisis, Denial, and Building Collective Care in the Age of Pandemics is a report which centres the experiences and organising of Covid safer, disabled and clinically vulnerable communities in the UK and Ireland, and what we can learn from them in building for our current moment.
Led by Health Justice Researcher Dr Stephanie Davis, the research seeks to make sense of Covid-19 within a social justice framework, questioning mainstream right wing political discourses of denialism and how this shapes our movements. It reflects on what ‘normal’ we have returned to, and the ways in which Covid denial has emboldened the very structures we are struggling against.
This work also encourages us to think outside of state institutions to what a Covid or crisis response would look like that centred disability justice and the building of life-affirming infrastructure for the age of pandemics and polycrisis. What might our movements look like if we centred all care for all people?
Design: Kaiya Waerea.
Past events
Launch event: Denial & Collective Care in the Age of Pandemics
This roundtable conversation featuring Dr Stephanie Davis, Selina Nwulu, Hazel Sealeaf, Blezzing Dada & Chloe Cheeseman (Breathe Easy Sheffield) brings together those who are working to embed disability justice and Covid consciousness across our movements (e.g. climate justice, gender justice), reflecting on what Covid-era organising and denialism tell us about our preparedness to organise in these times, and how we can centre collective care within our movements for liberation.
Resources
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Breathing Spaces: Crisis, Denial, and Building Collective Care in the Age of Pandemics
Breathing Spaces: Crisis, Denial, and Building Collective Care in the Age of Pandemics is a new report which centres the experiences and organising of Covid safer, disabled and clinically vulnerable communities in the UK and Ireland, and what we can…
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Dear Comrade…
This is a creative piece of writing that invites folks into thinking about the ongoingness of the Covid-19 pandemic [and the denial of this ongoingness]. In my research and personal experience I have found a lot of movement spaces do…
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No going back
At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 there was hope that another world was possible – Covid violently illuminated the longstanding structural inequalities and violence of our society and it felt as though there was broader support than…
