I will miss spending so much time with my kiddo. As exhausting as parenting a toddler is in normal times, let alone in a pandemic, I have really treasured our time together, which is now longer than the time I had off when she was born. (Side note: America do better on parental leave.)
I'm anxious about missing my kiddo. I'm anxious abou…
I will miss spending so much time with my kiddo. As exhausting as parenting a toddler is in normal times, let alone in a pandemic, I have really treasured our time together, which is now longer than the time I had off when she was born. (Side note: America do better on parental leave.)
I'm anxious about missing my kiddo. I'm anxious about navigating a new world. I'm anxious about slipping back into an old world.
I learned that I can ask for help.
I'm not learning as much about the world as I am being sadly affirmed in what, as a scholar of gender studies, I teach in the classroom year after year. Health disparities based on race/gender/class, an economic downturn that is reversing hard won (and long fought for) gender equity goals, the neoliberal state apparatus that forces us to focus on individual rather than structural responses to systemic issues (i.e. wearing masks but not being able to get tested). It's exhausting, but also means that I have been thinking about this a all a long time! I hope that I am able to help my students to think about this all in a more critical way... after all, they are going to inherit it all and need to think differently than the ways of thinking that got us into this mess!
I never want to forget daily walks around the block with my kiddo, which are always reminders of finding joy in the every day.
Thanks Gwen. Resonate with so much of this, of course. Though I have to admit, I hadn't thought about the mask vs. testing thing, which is SO OBVIOUS now that you've said it. I want to take your class!
I will miss spending so much time with my kiddo. As exhausting as parenting a toddler is in normal times, let alone in a pandemic, I have really treasured our time together, which is now longer than the time I had off when she was born. (Side note: America do better on parental leave.)
I'm anxious about missing my kiddo. I'm anxious about navigating a new world. I'm anxious about slipping back into an old world.
I learned that I can ask for help.
I'm not learning as much about the world as I am being sadly affirmed in what, as a scholar of gender studies, I teach in the classroom year after year. Health disparities based on race/gender/class, an economic downturn that is reversing hard won (and long fought for) gender equity goals, the neoliberal state apparatus that forces us to focus on individual rather than structural responses to systemic issues (i.e. wearing masks but not being able to get tested). It's exhausting, but also means that I have been thinking about this a all a long time! I hope that I am able to help my students to think about this all in a more critical way... after all, they are going to inherit it all and need to think differently than the ways of thinking that got us into this mess!
I never want to forget daily walks around the block with my kiddo, which are always reminders of finding joy in the every day.
Thanks Gwen. Resonate with so much of this, of course. Though I have to admit, I hadn't thought about the mask vs. testing thing, which is SO OBVIOUS now that you've said it. I want to take your class!