On International Women's Day 2019, feminists involved in the Women's Strike UK organised political 'stay and play' events across London-in Walthamstow, Tooting, Haringey, Clapton and Deptford-and in Cardiff-called 'My Mum is on Strike' (MMIOS). These were events where children could be collectively cared for while their mums, carers and parents could have a chance to chat about what it means to care for children in 2019. More than 500 people attended across our six venues, making it a roaring success and beyond our wildest dreams as organisers. 1
This chapter examines the theory and organisational practices of ensuring ‘safety’ for those participating in transnational migrant solidarity collectives. It uses ethnographic materials gained from participatory activist scholarship in Calais and London migrant solidarity collectives and assesses the ability of these groups to respond to the differentiated vulnerabilities that individuals bring to the protest camp- particularly in terms of the experiences and responses to structural oppression such as racism, sexism and homophobia. The current preference for safer spaces policies as one way of mediating conflict in activist collectives will be examined in terms of who may be left behind when individual trauma or addiction can leave people unable or unwilling to act according to the rules that these policies prescribe, and seeks different modes of collaboration that may not always feel safe or comfortable for all involved.
Emotional labour in the Childcare Crisis: Collective solutions to the way 'feeling alone' is built into social reproduction in neoliberal Britain
Commented [AA1]:What do you mean by neoliberal? I ask because historians are obsessed with this question atm and I've sat through many seminars where someone uses neoliberal as a throwaway in their paper and then the ENTIRE Q&A is devoted to definitional debate.
Commented [am2]:I would integrate this with some of the above, as I think it could be condensed to avoid repetition.
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