Multiple Estrangements in the Twilight Zone: Chronic Illness and Queerness in Southern Europe

Pieri, Mara

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“…For young adults, due to permanent or temporary unemployment, returning to the family home and cohabiting with parents was the only option to avoid homelessness. In other situations, due to the late emancipation that characterizes familialist societies in Southern Europe ( Pieri, 2020 ), young adults were already cohabiting with their biological families, but cohabitation became more challenging during lockdown with very limited opportunities to escape from an often oppressive environment ( Gato et al, 2021 ).…”

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“…Another common issue is a decline in the objective conditions of existence of those who, due to homophobia, transphobia and other forms of structural discrimination, have a higher rate of unemployment or of invisible, precarious and insecure employment ( Pieri, 2020 ). This is particularly relevant in the case of trans and non-binary people, as we have been studying in the CILIA LGBTQI + Lives project.…”

Section: Precariousness Unemployment Homelessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…So, let me start by saying that I am speaking from Portugal, a post-dictatorship country, reputedly Catholic (at least in its dominant cultural framework) and with a familialist welfare society that compensates the shortcomings of its somewhat fragile welfare state ( Wall et al, 2001 ). Many of these features can be found across Southern Europe ( Pieri, 2020 ). However, when compared to its Southern European counterparts, the additional layer of interest of Portugal stems from the relatively speedy process of recognition and protection of LGBTQI + 3 people ( Santos, 2013a ), placing Portugal at the forefront of sexual and gender diversity at a global scale in less than two decades.…”

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Open forum: The politics of gender (research) in a global pandemic

Dahl¹

2022

European Journal of Women's Studies

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It goes without saying at this point: we are living in a world plagued by multiple pandemic viruses, both ideological and infectious, with deep implications for feminist livelihoods, research and teaching. Conservative, fascist and nationalist movements, institutions and parties continue their vicious attacks on gender research, on anti-racist, feminist and LGBTQ + movements, and along with certain strands of "feminism" are calling the very meaning of "gender" itself into question. In addition, and perhaps more obviously, over the last nearly two years, the world has been transformed by another man-made pandemic with deeply gendered consequences. Indeed, already in April of 2020, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres noted that "across every sphere, from health to the economy, security to social protection, the impacts of COVID-19 are exacerbated for women and girls simply by virtue of their sex." 1 While Secretary General Guterres' observation about structural inequality is no more news to feminist researchers than the problem that gave rise to #metoo a few years back, we also know that "sex" is hardly a simple matter or virtue. Indeed, just like anti-gender movements target some bodies more than others, it is clear that while we may all run the risk of catching the infamous corona virus, the impact and effects of this pandemic are hardly universal. The North and West remain in focus of news reporting and strategies and global corporations and powerful nations control access to and profits from the vaccine. Europe and its nations continue to report deeply gendered, classed, and racialized inequalities in terms of exposure, illness, precarity and vaccine rates, to name only a few.The pandemic has affected the personal and professional health and well-being of scholars in diverse ways to be sure, and they depend on personal and structural location, family situation and levels of job (in)security, among other factors. Yet, as we "return to work", it seems that, on the whole, academics in Europe have largely faced a number of inconveniences as we have had to adjust our teaching and research practices and link our home dwellings to the corporate-owned communication systems that universities now rely on. As European nations move in the direction of "going back" many of us reflecting

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2022

European Journal of Women's Studies

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“…Nevertheless, against the backdrop of heteronormative law and social policy (Carabine, 2004), there is a range of care practices which are particularly crucial in a context of economic crisis, when the welfare state fails to provide adequate support. A significant example, yet understudied in the context of southern European countries despite relevant and recent exceptions (Pieri, 2020;Pieri & Brilhante, 2022;Santos, 2020), is the role of friends as well as non-standard families and informal networks in providing care when formal provision reveals to be insufficient or inadequate.…”

Section: Section Ii: Care Mattersmentioning

confidence: 99%